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“Someone very special and different has passed"

A celebration of the life and work of Harry Horse

ALAN SIMPSON, director of The Last Polar Bears

When we first decided to make an animated TV special based on Harry's book The Last Polar Bears, we arranged to meet him. As the book is a diary written by a grandfather, I expected to meet a frail old man.