Daniel Raymond Postgate (5 February 1964 – 27 June 2025) was an English scriptwriter, author and illustrator. Some of his books include Smelly Bill, Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine, and Big Mum Plum. In 2014, he collaborated with his father Oliver Postgate’s business partner and other founder of Smallfilms, Peter Firmin, on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Daniel Postgate writing many of the episodes and voicing the Iron Chicken, The Soup Dragon, and her son, Bab…