Familiar names in the CBeebies credits

The kids are aging out of the CBeebies era in our lives, which is disappointing, because I think I'm going to genuinely miss the noisy charms of Hey Duggie, and Sarah and Duck. 

I'm also going to definitely miss seeing familiar names from British comics and nerd culture in the end credits of these strange UK shows, and wondering if and how they're connected. They're mostly not connected in any way - I was slightly gutted to figure out that the Ben Cook responsible for the glory of Sarah and Duck isn't the same Ben Cook who printed his emails with Russell T Davies while he was writing peak Doctor Who, and somehow creating the best book about writing I've ever read.

But it also isn't surprising when you see somebody like Steve Roberts appear behind the surreal goofiness of Twirlywoos and confirming it is the same Steve Roberts who did some vey idiosyncratic comics for 2000ad. He did a great Cursed Earth, was an excellent artist for some comedy Sinister/Dexter strips, and was slightly wasted on the banal Bec and Kawl, and it's little surprise that he's moved onto entertaining the kids in a new and odd way. We should all be so multi-skilled.