Mr Postgate was prime purveyor of lovely stuff.

Having loved his programmes as a boy, I've introduced my son to the Clangers and of course Bagpuss. He already knows the words to half the Bagpuss songs off by heart...

I saw a ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea.
And, oh, but it was laden
With pretty things for thee.

There were comfits in the cabin,
And apples in the hold;
The sails were made of silk
And the masts were all of gold.

The four-and-twenty sailors
That stood between the decks,
Were four-and-twenty white mice
With chains about their necks.

The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move,
The captain said, "Quack! Quack!"