Papa's got a brand new Bagpuss

How Sandra Kerr's folk roots for the fondly remembered 1970s children's TV show has influenced today's performers. By Jude Rogers"We will fix it! We will stitch it!" Eight words, sung in the unmistakable falsetto of the rodent operators of the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ, can throw any child of the 1970s back to a dusty shop window, and a saggy old cloth cat. This weekend as part of Sidmouth Folk Week, Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner, who voiced those mice (though they were more prominent as...

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