The BBC star di3d after splitting from their partner of 35 years.

Tragic Clangers producer took his own life and was found dead in his shed after battling cancer

The BAFTA-winning star’s inquest was held this week (Image: Barry Goodwin/Cover Images)

After a heartbreaking split from his partner, BAFTA-winner Daniel Postgate, the son of Bagpuss co-creator Oliver Postgate, was found d3ad in his shed aged 61. Daniel helped bring shows like Bagpuss and The Clangers to our screens, but he was tragically found d3ad in a shed at his Whitstable home in June after taking his own life.

His inquest, which was carried out this week at Oakwood House, Maidstone, heard the medical cause of d3ath was consistent with suicide. Coroner Sarah Clarke told the court: “I always say to family, I don’t think it’s a question [why a person has di3d by suicide] that can ever be answered.

“He tells me he’s undertaking a deliberate act. He doesn’t want to endure the ongoing treatment. I would be wrong to find another reason [for Daniel’s d3ath].”

The star had recently split with his partner

The star had recently split with his partner (Image: PA)

 

The BBC star had a history of anxiety and depression, and he’d had blood cancer. Daniel had chemotherapy for the illness in 2019, but a medical letter he received before his d3ath brought anxieties about his health to the forefront.

The NHS letter warned that, although his treatment had gone well, the cancer could return. It explained his diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of blood cancer, and aplastic anaemia, in which the body cannot make enough blood cells.

Daniel had two children, and he’d amicably split with his partner of 35 years ahead of his untimely d3ath.

His brother Simon Postgate told the coroner’s court: “He was able to communicate and was quite chatty and fairly relaxed, but he had underlying depression for about 40 years.

“It was sometimes difficult to tell what frame of mind he was in.”