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‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return

Stop-motion animation voted the UK’s all-time favourite kids’ show will be rebooted with the ‘saggy old cloth cat’ now busy mending in modern Britain

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2025

Has anybody seen the Wombles? The hunt is on for TV’s favourite puppets and props

Bagpuss, the Clangers and Paddington are among the icons of childhood that fans are determined to save

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024

‘The cameras were held together with Meccano’: how we made Bagpuss

‘He was supposed to be a marmalade-coloured cat but the fabric company got muddled up – and dyed his fur bright pink instead’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024