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Michael Cole (1933-2001) created a number of children's programmes from the 70s to the 90s,〔 *http://www.curiousbritishtelly.co.uk/2015/01/why-michael-cole-was-incredible-star-of.html〕 including ''Alphabet Castle'', ''Heads and Tails'' and ''Ragtime'', for which he won a Society of Film and Television Award (later known as a BAFTA) for Best Children's Programme.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1974 Television Rediffusion Star Awards: Harlequin )〕 Together with his wife Joanne Cole,〔 he created ''Bod'', originally published as four books in 1965 and made into a TV show in the 70s,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BFI Screenonline: Bod (1975-76) )〕 as well as ''Fingerbobs'' 〔http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/464468/index.html〕 and ''Gran''.〔http://www.toonhound.com/gran.htm〕 == Life and work == Michael Cole was born in Willesden, London on 17 March 1933. During the war he and his family were evacuated to Cheltenham where after junior school he went to Cheltenham college. He trained as an intelligence officer during national service in the army and was sent to Cambridge University to learn Russian.〔 *http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1338439/Michael-Cole.html〕 In 1959 he collaborated with Halas and Batchelor writing for two series of animated shorts ''(Habatales)'' for ABC TV, including ''The Cultured Ape'' 〔http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/clips.asp?subarea=clips&clip=14〕 which was awarded best film in its category at the 1959 Venice Film Festival.〔http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/awards.asp〕〔http://asac.labiennale.org/it/passpres/cinema/ava-ricerca.php?scheda=2272&nuova=1&Sidopus=2272&ret=%2Fit%2Fpasspres%2Fcinema%2Fannali.php%3Fm%3D33%26c%3Dp〕 In 1964 Cole moved with his wife and 2 children to South of France where they created the first ''Bod'' books which were published by Metheun in 1965. Two years later, and now with four children, Cole began working for BBC children's television, initially writing and directing for ''Play School'' 〔http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/562713/credits.html〕 and ''Play Away''.〔http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/591433/credits.html〕 In 1972 Michael and Joanne Cole created ''Fingerbobs'', songs and stories with simple paper puppets and artwork by Joanne Cole. The show starred Rick Jones and was shown on BBC until 1984.〔http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/indexd04a.html?page_id=771〕 In 1972 Cole wrote and directed ''Ragtime'' a BBC studio programme with songs and sketches, featuring puppets by Joanne Cole, illustrations by Quentin Blake and music by Peter Gosling. The programme won a Society of Film and Television Award (later known as a BAFTA) in 1973 for Best Children's Programme 〔 and was followed by a second series. In 1975 Cole developed the four original'' Bod'' books into a thirteen episode animated cartoon series for BBC. Narrated by John Le Mesurier and Maggie Henderson with music by Derek Griffiths, nine new stories were created which were later made into books. The films were animated by Alan Rogers and the programmes also featured Alberto Frog with artwork by Joanne Cole〔〔Legends of Kids TV, Gary Vaux, GjBpublishing, 2009 Michael and Joanne Cole pages 24-26〕 Bod was broadcast on BBC until 1984. It was also shown in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Israel. In the United States, Bod aired on Nickelodeon as part of the ''Pinwheel'' program. Music and songwriting were always major parts of Cole's programmes and another collaboration with Derek Griffiths lead to ''Heads and Tails'' in 1977. Made up of archive and specially shot footage of animals with humorous voices, songs and music by Griffiths.〔http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/index196a-2.html?page_id=779〕 Songs from both ''Ragtime'' and ''Heads and Tails'' were released as vinyl LPs. In the early 80s Cole wrote and directed two studio programmes for BBC, ''Bric-a-brac'' starring Brian Cant in a fictitious junk shop 〔http://www.curiousbritishtelly.co.uk/2014/01/bric-brac.html〕 and ''Chockablock'' featuring a big yellow computer and presented by Fred Harris and Carol Leader.〔http://www.curiousbritishtelly.co.uk/2013/12/chock-block.html〕〔http://www.thechestnut.com/chockablock.htm〕 He also worked with David Yates in creating ''Pigeon Street'' animated by Alan Rogers and Peter Lang. The 13 episodes featured everyday people and animals living on Pigeon street, including such characters as long distant lorry driver, Clara, with a song to match. It was shown on BBC from 1981 and repeated until 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pigeon Street.com )〕 In 1982 the Coles created ''Gran'' co-written with Joanne Cole.〔http://www.curiousbritishtelly.co.uk/2014/01/gran.html〕 These tales of a most surprising grandmother, which were later developed into books, were animated by Ivor Wood (who had collaborated with Cole on the first series of ''Postman Pat'' ) and were narrated by Patricia Hayes.〔〔 In 1985 Cole's wife Joanne died of cancer aged 51. The same year ''Fingermouse'' was released, a musical version of Fingerbobs starring the paper mouse and other puppets, Joanne Cole's last work. In 1987 Cole wrote 26 episodes of ''Edward and Friends'', a stop-motion animated Lego with narration by Bernard Cribbins.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Toonhound - Edward and Friends (1987) )〕 and created ''Dot Stop'' for ''Playdays'' which aired on BBC from 1989-97. In 1992 Cole married his second wife Pam and from 1993-95 wrote and produced three series of ''Alphabet Castle'' and ''Tinysaurs'' for Carlton TV. In 2000 Cole started working on a new Bod book which he left unfinished before he died of cancer in 2001 at age 68.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TheHound - Here Come The Coles )〕 One year later, ''Bod's Way'' was published, written and illustrated by his children Alison and Laurence and based on Cole's original ideas.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Cole (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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