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Mother Comes Home as Childhood Thief Waits Lifetime to Drop a Clanger

BBC article on stolen Mother Clanger

So, is it true that one of the original Clanger puppets went missing for 50 years? It is indeed, and it makes quite a story. A young chap stole it from an exhibition in the 1970s and, a lifetime later, confessed to the theft just before he died. Josie, whose mother, Joan Firmin, made the […]