They became famous worldwide through a BBC TV series narrated by Bernard Cribbins and through the music of Mike Batt, who wrote a series of hit songs for the Wombles in the mid-1970s. A new series ...

Mike Batt “often used to wonder” if David Bowie could have ended up a novelty artist. The 75-year-old conductor-and-songwriter – who was the musical brains behind children’s group The Wombles – was a ...