Andy Pandy and Ben', all having a similar format-filmed marionettes, there was also an animated drawn character called 'Busy Lizzy' incorporated into the "Picture book" series. All the filmed black and white 1950s original transmissions were narrated by Maria Bird, who was to become a co-producer, with Freda Lingstrom, who worked for the BBC. Bird was a prolific writer of books for the very young, notably Andy Pandy, but it was for her distinct BBC English" enunciation that she is best remembered. A marionette who lived in a picnic basket, Andy was later joined by Teddy, a teddy bear, and Looby Loo,
Paul Atterbury competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships on the great ocean routes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Atterbury is the owner of the only remaining Teddy puppet from the television series "Andy Pandy", that is not kept as part of a museum collection, which was a gift to his mother. He lives in Weymouth in Dorset with his second wife, Chrissie, whom he married in 2002. Paul Atterbury Paul Rowley Atterbury, FRSA (born 8 April 1945) is a British antiques expert, known for his many appearances since 1979 on the BBC TV programme "Antiques