

In Season 6, Ken's role of Pat was taken over by Lewis MacLeod as Ken felt it was time to hand over "Pat’s postbag", but he continued to voice his other characters. In 1992, Ken sang a parody of the Postman Pat theme for an advertisement of HP's Postman Pat Spaghetti Shapes. In 1989, Ken also sang two Christmas singles, " The Christmas Pudding Song" and " The Christmas Tree", produced by Bryan Daly who also composed the Postman Pat theme song. Today, though Pat may have lost his long association with the Royal.

Postman Pat figures by US toymaker ERTL and the long-forgotten UK toy companies Bendy Toys and Barons Manufacturing Ltd can only become ever harder to find, especially in mint condition. (The latter was also the last one he did all the voices on.) Between 19, he narrated the original audio stories again, but with Carole Boyd doing the female voices this time. Some of the vintage Postman Pat toys from the early 80’s are becoming highly collectable. It follows the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman who works for Royal Mail postal service in the fictional village of.
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Between 19, he narrated new audio stories such as Postman Pat and The Dinosaur. Postman Pat (known as Postman Pat and his Black and White Cat in Series 2, and later called Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service) is a British stop-motion animated television series first produced by Woodland Animations Ltd.

He originally narrated the audiobooks for the first thirteen stories written by John Cunliffe.
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When Ken wasn't recording dialogue for the TV series, he was narrating special audiobooks. In 1986, Ken narrated, voiced the characters and sang a parody of the theme for a Postman Pat spoof called "Postman Pete" for Bobby Davro on the Box. Starting with Postman Pat takes the Bus, Carole Boyd did the voice acting for all the female characters and children, while Ken voiced all the male characters and Granny Dryden.Ī singer by trade, Ken sang the famous theme tune and the various songs in "Postman Pat", as well as the theme tune and songs for "Charlie Chalk", another Ivor Wood TV series. In the first series in 1981 he voiced all the characters, serving as the narrator. He was born in Tunstall, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire in England. Leslie Hulme, better known as Ken Barrie (Born 9th January, 1933 - Died 29th July, 2016) was an English voice actor and singer who served as the narrator and voice actor of Postman Pat.
