THE Harwich-born creator of Bagpuss and the Clangers will be honoured at the Bafta Children's Awards.

Peter Firmin, 85, will be presented with the Bafta Special Award on Sunday for his outstanding contribution to children’s media and the entertainment industry.

Firmin, who was born in Cliff Road, Dovercourt, in 1928, will be presented the award by actor Bernard Cribbins with an introduction by Monty Python star Michael Palin.

With long-term collaborator Oliver Postgate, Firmin created the beloved children’s TV programmes The Saga of Noggin the Nog, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine, Pogles’ Wood and Bagpuss.

He said: “Television has changed and developed beyond anything we could have dreamt of in the years before colour and digital and computer chips with everything, so it is touching that our work is still remembered with such affection."