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The Flower Pot Men – Did you know

Bill and Ben first appeared as radio characters, on Listen With Mother in 1951. They featured in three episodes in stories written by Hilda Brabban. Freda Lingstrom adapted these stories and the characters when they moved to television. Brabban was paid a guinea each for the stories, but according to her obituary, never received a penny in royalties from sales of the programme – which have been estimated at £2 million in today’s money. According to some sources, filming originally took place in a tin shed in the BBC’s Lime Grove studio complex, but was later moved to a purpose-built puppet studio. Voices of the characters were provided by Peter Hawkins, Gladys Whitred and Julia Williams. The narrator for each episode was Maria Bird. Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men Hawkins created the characters’ trademark nonsense language, which is officially called ‘Oddle Poddle’ – but became known colloquially as ‘flobadob’, after Ben’s favourite utterance. Hawkins went on to make up the language of the Teletubbies, some 45 years later. Both series were criticised by some for hindering children from learning proper English. The original Bill and Ben puppets are now housed at the Museum of London. The modern Bill and Ben series was made by Cosgrove Hall, creators of Danger Mouse, for the BBC. It ran to 52 episodes, and was narrated by actor and comedian John Thomson.