When Sooty and Sweep Went Punk

When Sooty and Sweep Went Punk

For more than seven decades, two small glove puppets have occupied a strange and beloved corner of British culture. On the surface they belong firmly in the nursery: simple jokes, slapstick chaos, jam tarts and magic wands. Yet the unlikely double act of Sooty and Sweep has repeatedly wandered into the adult world, sometimes in ways nobody quite expected. One of the most surreal examples came in 1977, when they appeared alongside the famously ce…