Sprout’s newest original series, “Clangers,” starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner William Shatner as the narrator, is quite possibly the best new entry in children’s programming on television today, and it also has a rich history.Communicating only in whistles with a guiding voice over from the narrator, the Clanger clan eat special green soup from the Soup Dragon and work out all sorts of pinkish knitted dilemmas together. You can thank creators at British production house Smallfilms, where Oliver Postgate (writer, animator and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and illustrator) designed the characters, and Firmin’s wife knitted and “dressed” the […]...