Fab Lab is a British

United Kingdom

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 television programme designed for pre-school children. It is currently aired on the CBeebies

CBeebies

CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...

 channel. It is an introduction to science, nature and technology for young children.

The program features two pixies named "Trixi" and "Dixi" and a dog (male, breed unspecified) called "Prof". Trixi and Dixi are puppet

Puppet

A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of theatre....

s while Prof is played by a human in a whole-body dog suit.

The two pixies live under the floor of a large garden shed

Shed

A shed is typically a simple, single-storey structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop....

 known as the "Fab Lab". The shed is used as a laboratory by Prof who investigates various phenomena such as rainfall or the germination of plants. He explains features of the physical and natural world to the pixies, sometimes with the aid of a personal computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 which Prof uses to show video sequences. Prof is very partial to green biscuit

Biscuit

A biscuit is a baked, edible, and commonly flour-based product. The term is used to apply to two distinctly different products in North America and the Commonwealth Nations....

s called "Pixiebicks" with which the pixies sometimes bribe Prof to expand his explanations.

At the end of the programme a whistle is heard, upon which Prof says that "Mrs Whistle" (presumably his owner) is calling, and leaves the shed.

Cast

• Dixi: Simon Buckley
• Trixi: Katherine Smee
• Prof: Siân Richardson (voiced by Jim Dunk)

• Assistant Puppeteers:

Judith Bucklow

Hannah Proops

• Animatronics Operator:

Daniel Carlisle

• Writer

Christopher Lillicrap

Christopher Lillicrap

Christopher Lillicrap is a British television presenter, writer and composer. He is best known for being a children's TV presenter in the 1970s and '80s, and has numerous writing credits, including Rainbow and Fimbles. He presented We'll Tell You a Story, and Flicks – ITV's answer to Jackanory –...

External links

• CBeebies - Fab Lab at bbc.co.uk
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The end-credits of the programme spell the names thus, however the CBeebies web page for the programme refers to "Trixie" and "Dixie"