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Cosmic comedy connections. A spoof documentary series that stretches the truth, narrated by Oliver Postgate. From May 1995.

Links between cheese sculpture, pavement privatisation, skirting boards and the great knitting reform act.

Animator and voice of Bagpuss and the Clangers, Oliver Postgate island-hops through a stream of bizarre coincidences.

Ben Moor’s cosmic comedy of connections.

With:

Miriam Margolyes
Dan Strauss
Kerry Shale
Michael Simkins
Gary Waldhorn
Alan Dedicoat
Hugh Scully
James Naughtie

Producer: Jon Naismith

First broadcast on ±«Óãtv Radio 4 in May 1995

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