Noggin the Nog on BBC Four      (05.05.11)
  

   BBC Four begins a season of films next week celebrating the
   Wonders of Iceland. And tucked away within the icey scheduling
   is a real treat for toon fans in the shape of the Sagas of
   Noggin the Nog!

   Noggin was created by the SmallFilms duo of Oliver Postgate
   and Peter Firmin, and the original black and white series first
   aired between 1959-1965. Now if you're any kind of Noggin
   fan you will know that Mssrs Postagte and Firmin returned
   to that brilliantly bleak and stormlashed realm once more,
   in the early 80's, to bring us the stories of "Noggin and the
   Ice Dragon and "Noggin and the Pie", in colour, and it's these
   two tales that are being aired.

   Here's the scheduling:

   Mon 9th May
   7:30pm - Noggin and the Pie - Part One
   10:50pm - Noggin and the Ice Dragon - Part One

   Tues 10th May
   7:30pm - Noggin and the Pie - Part Two
   10:50pm - Noggin and the Ice Dragon - Part Two
   
   Wed 11th May
   10:50pm - Noggin and the Ice Dragon - Part Three

   Thurs 12th May
   10:50pm - Noggin and the Ice Dragon - Part Four

    There's something so haunting about this production.
    There's Peter's Firmin's imagery, his broiling seascapes, 
    and mysterious shrouded cliffs and mountaintops. The Nogs
    dwell in a legendary land, it's steaped in melancholy and
    Oliver Postgate's narration is completely hypnotic. It has
    the warmth of a fireside within it, but there's something else,
    something cruel and dark, yet delicious and inviting at the
    same time...

   "In the lands of the North, where the black rocks
    stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night
    that is very long, the men of the Northlands sit by
    their great log fires and they tell a tale..."

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