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 Band Called Quinn on vocals. This track was then developed into a short film with Scottish Film Director Uisdean Murray which was nominated for Best Music Based Short Film at Cannes in a Van 2012, Best Film & Script at Renderyard Film Festival (Spain) & nominated for a Scottish Short Film Award at The Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012. Oh Jackie screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 In 2009 A Band Called Quinn toured in award-winning Scottish based Vanishing Point (Theatre Company)'s revision of John Gay's 18th Century classic The Beggars Opera. It was a co-production by The Lyceum in Edinburgh