From Noggin the Nog to Death on the Nile

I was introduced to the elder brother of Oliver Postgate (Noggin the Nog, Pogles’ Wood, Bagpuss), Professor John Postgate at a Society for General Microbiology conference at the University of Warwick when he was President.

He was the cousin of Dame Angela LansburyMurder She Wrote, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Death on the Nile.

Angela Lansbury was the granddaughter of Leader of the Labour Party, George Lansbury.

Angela Lansbury was the sister-in-law of Peter Ustinov – both starred in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie‘s Death on the Nile, with Lansbury as Salome Otterbourne and Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.

Lansbury and Postgate family trees
Noggin the Nog 1959.
Pogle’s Wood: Honey Bees 21 April 1966.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks – Substitutiary Locomotion Battle.
Death on the Nile 1974 trailer.

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