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A political history of The Clangers

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20 June 2015

9:00 AM

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

Dropping the Clangers

The Clangers made a comeback on BBC television. Some Clanger facts:
— The actors doing the voices worked from a script in English, even though they were playing seemingly unintelligible noises on the swanee whistle. It was a good job the young viewers didn’t understand Clanger-language, because the creatures were known to tell each other to ‘sod off’.

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