CBeebies has released the first clip from the new series of The Clangers.

Narrated by Michael Palin, 52 new stop-motion animated episodes will air on weekdays from Monday 15 June on CBeebies.

> Buy the original first season of The Clangers on DVD on Amazon.

Watch the clip…

Each 11-minute episode will centre on members of the Clanger family either solving a problem, making a discovery, inventing something or greeting a new visitor to their small, blue planet.

The Clangers originally launched on the BBC in 1969.

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