Mail order cartoon star

Thirty years after Postman Pat first burst onto the scene, the 3D big screen version of our hero's life, subtitled You Know You're the One, has just gone into production.

Popular comic actor Stephen Mangan (pictured at foot) will voice Pat in the epic animated adventure destined for cinemas in Spring 2013 and the cast also includes Jim Broadbent, David Tennant and Rupert Grint.

Said Mangan: “I'm absolutely thrilled to be playing the world's best-known postman in his big screen debut - he's an iconic British hero and it's a great script. However when I excitedly told my 3-year-old son that I was going to be Postman Pat, he said, 'No you're not, dad, don't be silly.’”
 

Altogether now ... "Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat and his black and white cat ...."