Roberta Leigh, who has died aged 87, wrote romantic novels and children’s stories under a variety of noms de plume and in the 1960s was successful as a creator and producer of popular puppet ...

Roberta Leigh, who has died aged 87, wrote romantic novels and children’s stories under a variety of noms de plume and in the 1960s was successful as a creator and producer of popular puppet ...

The puppets were much more refined this time, with moving eyes and mouths, and the wires were finer, but Leigh and AP Films ended their association after the first series and the second run was ...