Editing Bernard Cribbins (section)

===Narration and voice work===
Cribbins was the narrator of the British animated children's television series ''[[The Wombles]]'' from 1973 to 1975 and also played the character of the Water Rat in a [[BBC Radio]] adaptation of ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''.<ref name = Coveney/> He was the celebrity storyteller in more episodes of ''[[Jackanory]]'' than any other personality,<ref name="bbc2022"/> with a total of 114 appearances between 1966 and 1991.<ref name="lawson">{{cite web |last1=Lawson |first1=Mark |title=Bernard Cribbins: a warm, kindly titan of children's entertainment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/28/bernard-cribbins-a-warm-kindly-titan-of-childrens-entertainment |website=The Guardian |date=28 July 2022 |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728130353/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/28/bernard-cribbins-a-warm-kindly-titan-of-childrens-entertainment |url-status=live }}</ref> He also narrated the audio tape of the [[Antonia Barber]] book ''[[The Mousehole Cat]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barber |first=Antonia |title=The Mousehole Cat |publisher=Listen for Pleasure |year=1996 |isbn=978-1858485133}}</ref> From 1974 to 1976, Cribbins narrated ''[[Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings]].''<ref name="BFI FIlmography" />

In the 1960s Cribbins provided the voice of the character [[Green Cross Code#Tufty Fluffytail|Tufty]] in [[Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents|RoSPA]] road safety films.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 February 2006 |title=In Tufty's club |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690166.stm |access-date=28 July 2022 |publisher=[[BBC]] |archive-date=22 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222032943/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690166.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> He also provided the voice of [[Buzby]], a talking cartoon bird that was the mascot for the [[General Post Office|Post Office]].<ref name="bbc2022"/> He also appeared in advertisements for [[Hornby Railways|Hornby]] model trains.<ref name="Screenonline"/> In 1978, he provided one of two voiceovers in the electricity safety [[public information film]] [[Play Safe (public information film)|Play Safe]]. The other voice artist was [[Brian Wilde]]; Wilde voiced the [[owl]] and Cribbins voiced the [[European robin|robin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Play Safe (1978) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6d73aca8 |access-date=28 July 2022 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029205705/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6d73aca8 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1981, [[Music for Pleasure (record label)|Music for Pleasure]] released a ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' audio book on tape cassette, read by Cribbins, abridged by Edward Phillips.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://allthingsransome.net/literary/archildrensbooks/SAtape81.htm |title=Swallows and Amazons cassette (abridged) 1981 |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=20 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920032615/http://allthingsransome.net/literary/archildrensbooks/SAtape81.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

From 1987 to 1991, Cribbins starred as Jimmy Bright alongside [[Frank Thornton]] as Russell Farrow in ''Mind Your Own Business'' on [[BBC Radio 2]], which also starred [[Annette Crosbie]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guide |first=British Comedy |title=Mind Your Own Business! - Radio 2 Sitcom |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/mind_your_own_business/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref>

Cribbins also provided the voiceover work for ''A Passion For Angling'', starring [[Chris Yates (fisherman)|Chris Yates]] and Bob James (1993).<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Passion for Angling |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-ur523g/a-passion-for-angling/episodes/ |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=[[Radio Times]] |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220358/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-ur523g/a-passion-for-angling/episodes/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, he played Puddleglum the marshwiggle in [[Brian Sibley]]'s BBC Radio adaptation of [[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[The Silver Chair]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1d8ecdfc52674971868d351641118fbc|title=The Silver Chair|date=September 29, 1996|publisher=BBC Genome Project}}</ref> In 2013, he played Old Bailey in the radio adaptation of ''[[Neverwhere]]'', dramatised by [[Dirk Maggs]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/h0MgDw71S1mCkFyN9Pjw6f/old-bailey|title=Neil Gaiman Neverwhere – Old Bailey|publisher=BBC|access-date=28 July 2022|archive-date=11 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611061025/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/h0MgDw71S1mCkFyN9Pjw6f/old-bailey|url-status=live}}</ref> and in 2015 he was among an ensemble cast in an audio production of ''[[The Jungle Book]]'', in which he played the White Cobra.<ref name="lawson" />