Pulling the strings: meet the people who brought puppets to life
Puppets were once ubiquitous on TV, but over the past two decades they've all but vanished. What happened to them " and to the humans who used to control them? I was the producer of The Broom Cupboard, with Phillip Schofield, which wrapped around the children's programmes on BBC1 for an hour-and-a-half each day. No one at the BBC paid us much attention, so we'd just try out loads of ideas. Phillip was once sent a pup…