We've copies of Bagpuss on Blu-ray to be won.

Closing date:12/11/2023

We've got copies of the adorable children's classic Bagpuss on Blu-ray up for grabs.

For your chance to win, correctly answer the following question:

Bagpuss and all his friends lived in a 'shop'. What was the name of the little girl who ran it?

(a) Krystal

(b) Mercedes

(c) Emily

Best of luck.

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terms & conditions

1. This competition is only open to UK residents, excluding BOOM's friends and family and anyone else directly associated with this promotion.

2. The prize is a copy of Bagpuss on Blu-ray™. We have two copies in total to give away.

3. The winner will be drawn at random from all the correct entries, and only they will be contacted personally. The prize must be taken as stated and cannot be deferred. There will be no cash alternatives.

4. One entry per person - and yes, we will check. If we find that you have entered multiple times, we will disqualify you from this competition. Repeat offenders will be disqualified from entering future competitions. And we don't like robots, so we investigate multiple entries and entries suspected as being from robots will be deleted.

5. Closing date for entries is midnight on 12/11/2023.

6. Winners will be notified within 7 days by email. If a winner does not respond with their posting details 7 days after we sent them the initial notification email, their prize will be offered to another person following a subsequent further draw. This process will repeat until somebody responds and tells us where to send the prize. If you're entering, please remember to check your emails!

About Bagpuss:

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry cat-puss, wake-up, and look at this thing that I bring, wake-up, be bright, be golden and light. Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing.

Bagpuss was first seen on British television on 12th February 1974. Only 13 episodes were ever made, but the programme has remained popular down the generations and was voted the all-time favourite children’s programme in 1999. Join Emily and friends as she wakes Bagpuss once again, now fully restored in high definition, from the film negatives.

This charming children’s stop motion animation was made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, starring the “saggy old cloth cat” Bagpuss. Postgate and Firmin’s production company Smallfilms created some of the most loved children's programmes from 1959 until the 80s, working from a disused cowshed at Firmin's home in Blean, near Canterbury. As well as Bagpuss they made Pogle's Wood, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog.

Bagpuss wasn’t meant to be such a bright pink. Firmin said "It should have been a ginger marmalade cat but the company in Folkestone dyeing the material made a mistake and it turned out pink and cream. It was the best thing that ever happened". Bagpuss’s friend Gabriel the Toad was based on a real toad that lived in the basement of Firmin’s flat in Twickenham. Gabriel was named after the character Walter Gabriel (1953 -1988) from BBC Radio 4s The Archers. Professor Yaffle (full name Augustus Barclay Yaffle) was based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met.

“I’m telling you, there’s a lot in there. You could do a lot worse than get yourself the DVD of Bagpuss.” Thom Yorke, Radiohead

Thom Yorke wanted to name Radiohead’s sixth studio album The Bony King of Nowhere after the song in episode 2 of Bagpuss. However, the band deemed it “too prog” and so the album was called Hail to the Thief. Yorke asked Oliver Postgate to make the video for the single There There (the subtitle of which is The Bony King of Nowhere) from the album but Postgate was 78 years old and retired by this time and therefore declined.

Synopsis: Bagpuss lives in a “shop” belonging to a girl called Emily where nothing is for sale. Emily brings home broken or lost toys which she puts in the window of her shop where Bagpuss sleeps. When Emily leaves, Bagpuss awakes along with his friends Professor Yaffle, Gabriel Croaker (of the “Tea Time Toads”), Madeleine the rag doll and the musical mice on their magical mouse organ.