Daniel Postgate

Daniel Postgate (born 5 February 1964), is an English illustrator, and writer and the son of Oliver Postgate, co-founder of Smallfilms.^[1] His books include Smelly Bill, Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine, and Big Mum Plum.^[1] In 2014, he collaborated with his dad's old business partner and friend and other founder of Smallfilms, Peter Firmin on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Postgate writing many of the episodes and voicing the Iron Chicken, The Soup Dragon, and her son, Baby Soup Dragon. He also won a Bafta for the episode 'I am the Eggbot'.

After the death of his father in 2008, Daniel inherited Smallfilms, the company set up by his dad and Firmin. Smallfilms is a company that has made Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.

Career[]

When Postgate moved to London he became a regular contributor to The Sunday Times. Eventually he wrote a story and made it into a rough book which he sent to fifteen publishers. Postgate has written many children's books (big mother plum, hairy toe, smelly bill, wild west willy)^[1] and written multiple episodes of the CBeebies revival for one of his dad's most famous works, Clangers (2015–) which won a Bafta in 2015 and he was nominated again the following year for best writer.^[2]

Personal life[]

Postgate was born in Whitstable, Kent, and attended the Canterbury Technical College. He has worked as a chef, a painter of horses and sea scenes on old wooden boxes, a freelance cartoonist, and a picture book illustrator.^[3] Postgate has two children, a son and a daughter.

Early life[]

Postgate was born in Whitstable Hospital on 5 February 1964. He was the youngest of six children. He grew up in Blean, a village just outside Whitstable, and he lived in a large house which was once a pub.^[4]

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