Oliver Postgate 1925-2008

News of Oliver Postgate's death reached me by Twitter; several people I follow picked it up and thought it sufficiently significance for a tweet about. This probably says something about me and the people I associate with.
Odd that the BBC obituary, while mentioning that George Lansbury was his maternal grandfather, says nothing of his father, Raymond Postgate, as influential a figure as Lansbury. Raymond was a journalist and novelist, founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and transformed British culinary taste as creator of the Good Food Guide.
Oliver's autobiography, Seeing Things, is well worth reading, as is his website, which I hope will be preserved. See for example his essays Does Children's Television Matter , Whose Country is it Anyway and So What is Trident For