Editing Clangers (section)

==Storyline==
''The Clangers'' was described by Postgate as a family in space. They were small creatures living in peace and harmony on – and inside – a small, hollow planet, far, far away: nourished by Blue String Pudding, and by Green Soup harvested from the planet's volcanic soup wells by the Soup Dragon.

The word "Clanger" is said to derive from the sound made by opening the metal cover of one of the creatures' crater-like burrows, each of which was covered with an old metal dustbin lid, to protect against [[meteorite]] impacts (and space debris). In each episode there would be some problem to solve, typically concerning something invented or discovered, or some new visitor to meet. Music Trees, with note-shaped fruit, grew on the planet's surface, and music would often be an integral feature in the simple but amusing plots. In the ''Fishing'' episode, one of the Cheese Trees provided a cylindrical five-line [[staff (music)|staff]] for notes taken from the Music Trees.

Postgate provided the narration, for the most part in a soft, melodic voice, describing and accounting for the curious antics of the little blue planet's knitted pink inhabitants, and providing a "translation", as it were, for much of their whistled dialogue. Postgate claimed that in reality when the Clangers' were whistling, they were "swearing their little heads off".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/clangers_v5.shtml|title=BBC - Cult - Classic TV - Clangers Video|website=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref>