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"Playschool" will be fondly remembered by a generation of British school-children for providing hours of educational amusement, mostly centering around whether Johnny Ball was on drugs, how Floella Benjamin got to sleep with all those beads in her hair and how Derek Griffiths managed to make his afro quite so massive.

The other question looming large in tiny minds was about the exact relationship of the toys on the show. In case you've forgotten, they were Hamble and Big Ted and little Ted too, Dapple, Jemima Humpty and 'ckatoo. The pressing issues surrounded Hamble's dubious sexuality and whether Little Ted was in fact Big Ted's beotch. In "Bang On A Drum", the playschool album of songs from 1981, Little Ted had his very own song, which included the word "perpendicular". I was strangely fascinated by this ditty.

MP