Created in 1971, the fondly remembered thirteen episode BBC TV series Fingerbobs invited children to imagine the minimally augmented gloves of the Canadian folk musician Rick Jones were a host of vivid characters, most famously the ebullient felt rodent Fingermouse.
The dedicated pop-cultural archivist Johnny Trunk has assembled and polished the series’ previously unreleased original music – no masters exist – into a set of twenty-one miniatures.
Acoustic guitar and woodwind evoke the respective characters of these timelessly totemic puppets, the song of the depressive but resilient Yiddish tortoise, Flash, offering a curiously coherent philosophy for life.
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Al Murray, Comedian
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter