Gordon Murray(1921-2016)

Burnt all but one of the puppets from the "Trumptonshire" trilogy in his back garden after the 3 series finished airing on television.

There's no crime, you know, in Trumptonshire. It's a happy world, and a lot of people say 'well, you shouldn't encourage children to think that the world's like that.' Some people throw their children into the deep end of the swimming bath at an early age and say 'swim'.; you know, 'that's the way to learn, life's hard. Hard things are coming to you.' I don't believe in that. I believe that you must protect your children while they are children for as long as possible from this dreadful world we're living in.