Sunday, 19 April 2015
froglet or soup-dragon? BFI highlights the divine Clangers Election Special from 1974.
40 years ago, on a small blue planet far away, it was polling day for the Clangers...
BFI are highlighting this 1974 episode which sees narrator Oliver Postgate trying to persuade the woolly creatures on the merits of party politics.
But the Clangers aren't taken with the prospect of a society ruled by one group - even though the Soup Dragon stands for election on a 'free soup for all' ticket and the Froglet just decides to oppose everything that the Soup Dragon suggests.
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