Bagpuss rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met), while the mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ that played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed all the folk songs. All the other voices (including the narrator and one out-of-tune mouse) were provided by Postgate, who also wrote the stories. The toys discussed
A Man Called Adam the release of several singles from the LP ("I Want To Know", "The Chrono Psionic Interface" and "Bread, Love And Dreams"), A Man Called Adam left Big Life to set up their own label, Other Records. Through the mid-1990s, A Man Called Adam released several singles and contributed to The Café del Mar series of compilation albums, as well as creating a side project, Beachflea, which released the album "What's That Smell?". The second A Man Called Adam album, "Duende", was released in 1998 and included the singles "Easter Song", "Que Tal America" and "All My Favourite People". It also