The Wombles, created by Elisabeth Beresford after she misheard her daughter mispronounce "Wimbledon Common" on a Boxing Day walk in 1968, became a BBC stop-motion phenomenon in the early 1970s. Great Uncle Bulgaria is the patriarch of the Wimbledon burrow — white-whiskered, habitually reading The Times, and the character most directly embodying Beresford's original ecological message about waste and recycling, which predated mainstream environmentalism by over a decade.
Guernsey has issued the series under royal licence following Charles III's accession.
The Wombles, created by Elisabeth Beresford after she misheard her daughter mispronounce "Wimbledon Common" on a Boxing Day walk in 1968, became a BBC stop-motion phenomenon in the early 1970s. Great Uncle Bulgaria is the patriarch of the Wimbledon burrow — white-whiskered, habitually reading The Times, and the character most directly embodying Beresford's original ecological message about waste and recycling, which predated mainstream environmentalism by over a decade.
Guernsey has issued the series under royal licence following Charles III's accession.