Editing Oliver Postgate (section)

==Other activities==
In the 1970s Postgate and Firmin worked with [[Michael Rosen]] on a Teaching to Read series on BBC Schools TV called ''Sam on Boff's Island''.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/10/bagpuss-oliver-postgate |title=Homespun genius |author=Aida Edemariam and Nicole Jackson |website=theguardian.com |date=10 December 2008 |access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref>

In the 1970s and 1980s Postgate was active in the [[Anti-nuclear movement|anti-nuclear campaign]], addressing meetings and writing several pamphlets including ''The Writing on the Sky''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/WRITING-SKY-Nuclear-Weapons-Postgate-Oliver/3747448666/bd | title=THE WRITING ON THE SKY. Nuclear Weapons. By Postgate, Oliver: Very Good+ Booklet (1983) First Edition; First Printing. &#124; Circle City Books }}</ref>

In 1986, in collaboration with the historian Naomi Linnell, Postgate painted a {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} ''Illumination of the Life and Death of [[Thomas Becket]]''  for a book of the same name, which is now in the archive of the [[Royal Museum and Art Gallery]], Canterbury. In 1990 he painted a similar work on [[Christopher Columbus]] for a book entitled ''The Triumphant Failure.'' ''A Canterbury Chronicle,'' a [[triptych]] by Postgate commissioned in 1990 hangs in the Great Hall of [[Eliot College, Kent|Eliot College]] on the [[University of Kent]]'s [[Canterbury]] campus.<ref name=CANTCHRO/>

Postgate narrated the six-part [[BBC Radio 4]] comedy series ''[[Elastic Planet]]'' in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elastic Planet|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/elastic_planet/|publisher=comedy.co.uk|access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>

In his later years, he [[blogging|blogged]] for the ''[[New Statesman]]''.<ref name="NewStatesman"/> Postgate's voice was heard once more in 2003, as narrator for ''Alchemists of Sound'', a television documentary about the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]]. On 15 July 2007, he was guest on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''.<ref name="auto"/> He was also a guest on [[The Russell Brand Show (radio show)|The Russell Brand Show]] on 19 January 2008 where he discussed the making of Bagpuss and his subsequent work in TV and Film.<ref name=RussellBrand/>

In 1987 the University of Kent at Canterbury awarded an honorary degree to Postgate, who stated that the degree was really intended for [[Bagpuss]], who was subsequently displayed in academic dress.<ref name="CANTCHRO"/>