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Ronnie Le Drew

Ronnie Le Drew

Canadian-British puppeteer

Jul 28, 2026

8:14
Is that right?
8:15
And that is exactly right, and that's what happened.
8:18
I mean, Thames decided to do their own preschool program and, and eventually came up with Rainbow.
8:25
And, um, I remember because Pamela Lonsdale, the original producer, ca- I was working at the Little Angel Puppet Theatre, which of course is where I started my, my whole career, and, um, she turned up at, with a researcher, at the workshop n- next door to the theater.
8:44
Uh, I think she'd probably phoned up the original director, John Wright, and said, "Look, you know, we'd like to come discuss possible puppet-making job or something." Anyway, she came up and she chatted away to John.
8:56
I was in the workshop making a...
8:58
Well, I wasn't making, but some friends were making a set of puppets for me for shows at the theater.

55 MINS LATER

63:53
'Cause they, they're still, they're still with us, aren't they?
speaker_2UNKNOWN
7:39
theatre?
7:40
In London.
7:42
Oh, where's that? Oh, it's in Islington, North London.
7:45
So I said, well, I can go to Stockwell.
7:47
It's on the Northern line.
7:49
And I started to visit the theatre.
7:52
It was basically founded by a man called John Wright.

11 MINS LATER

speaker_2UNKNOWN
18:49
was it

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