Where are they now?

[Archie_tect]

Chatting to my mum about television when I was growing up we got talking about what the presenters might be doing now. People like Susan Stranks from Magpie, John Noakes from Blue Peter....


More recent ones seem still to be around - Matt Baker and Connie Huq are still popular....but where do old presenters go?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Brian Cant runs a greengrocers in Swindon

 

[Bayerd]

I think they're all on You Tube.......

 

[Arch]

Brian Cant runs a greengrocers in Swindon

There was a Radio 4 Reunion programme recently about Play School, and he was on it. I was sad to realise that he sounded very very old.

Jonathan Cohen, on the other hand, sounded exactly like he always did. And Floella Benjamin is in the House of Lords now.

A lot of 'my era' of people are still going - Peter Purves, Johnny Ball, John Craven etc. But alas, Oliver Postgate is no longer with us. He and Peter Firmin made my childhood - I was lucky enough to meet Peter Firmin at a Noggin the Nog event, and thank him.

From the grown up world, Kenneth Kendall, the newsreader, was on that Young Ones experiment recently - then there was Richard Baker, Angela Rippon - she's still going, of course.

 

[Genman]

Peter Purves ( Blue Peter) commentates Crufts. The most odious stuck up prat I have ever met in my entire life, and his 'alleged' bit on the side twotty,Valerie Singleton, comes a very close second.

 

[fixedfixer]

John Craven is presenting on a programme called Country File.

 

[Davidc]

So where are Muffin the Mule, Bill and Ben and Weed, The Woodentops, and Rag Tag and Bobtail then? Those were real childrens TV personalities.

The human ones from when I watched childrens TV have mostly died. Johhny Morris from Animal magic, Eamon Andrews and Leslie Crowther from Crackerjack come to mind. I was never keen on Blue Peter so don't remember who presented it.

The cartoon ones come back every so often. Captain Pugwash and Popeye were my favourites

We didn't get a TV until 1959 when I was 7 so my early childhood experience was Listen with Mother, not Watch with Mother.

 

[Arch]

So where are Muffin the Mule, Bill and Ben and Weed, The Woodentops, and Rag Tag and Bobtail then? Those were real childrens TV personalities.

Some in Musuems I think. The casts of the Trumptonshire trilogy were apparently burnt by creator Gordon Murray when no longer needed.

http://www.t-web.co.uk/trumppup.htm

 

[ianrauk]

What was the name of the artist chappy? You know.. he also did Morph

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Tony Hart

 

[potsy]

What was the name of the artist chappy? You know.. he also did Morph

Tony Hart.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Tony Hart.

Too slow potsy baby!!

 

[potsy]

Too slow potsy baby!!

Damn it!!

 

[Davidc]

Some in Musuems I think. The casts of the Trumptonshire trilogy were apparently burnt by creator Gordon Murray when no longer needed.

http://www.t-web.co.uk/trumppup.htm

One of the best tributes to Bill and Ben and Weed that I know is at the RHS garden at Rosemoor (North Devon). They're in the vegetable garden.

(I love gardens, so visit the place several times a year and one of my targets for next year is to cycle from home to Rosemoor and back in a day - about 150 miles!)

 

[Archie_tect]

Went to Rosemoor for the first time in October while down in Tiverton for a week with the in-laws [who had waited for years to visit].... loved the Fruit and Veg garden too. The apple varieties were fantastic especially the 'step-over' trees!
Great cafe!

The gardeners were very helpful and seemed to take pleasure from helping which was fantastic.... would love to be able to visit more often but discovered that we have an RHS garden quite close near Harrogate.

Bit of a digression....sorry!