After first being shown on British television in 1969, the year of the first moon landings (sic) “The Clangers” was an instant success, and was hailed by a NASA scientist as “an attempt to bring a note of realism to the fantasy of the Space Race”.

At that time however, the Promiscuous Society had not quite developed a gay rights agenda and when it was discovered that The Soup Dragon, one of the show’s leading lights, was in fact having a lesbian affair with The Iron Chicken both were ejected from the show and our TV screens in a frenzy of moral outrage.

Although at the time the two claimed to be in love their relationship failed after they were declared by an un-understanding High Court to be unfit mothers and The Baby Soup Dragon and The Baby Iron Chicken were taken into care. Also, they were both determined to be the butch one.

The Soup Dragon spent most of the 70s hanging around Belgravia doing sniff and attending society parties, until a chance meeting with Hamble who had fallen from grace at Play School that lead to the pair helping set up the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in September 1981. She sadly died, a matriarchal figure in the women’s peace movement, after choking on a particularly long piece of blue string pudding in 1998.

This feature was written by Alex

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