Blue Peter was created by John Hunter Blair. Throughout the programme’s 60-year history, there have been eight editors: Biddy Baxter, Lewis Bronze, Oliver Macfarlane, Steve Hocking, Richard Marson, ...
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Peter is a 67-year-old British television institution — and now the BBC is relaunching the kids series with a new format and studio home. Blue Peter is switching from a live to a ...
As the show celebrates its 60th birthday, it's the question we are all asking - why is Blue Peter actually called Blue Peter? The children's television programme celebrates its sixth decade on the air ...
For more than 60 years, Blue Peter was a quintessential, and predominantly wholesome, part of the British childhood, making overnight stars of some of its most famous names. But behind the ...
The Prince of Wales received a badge from "Blue Peter," the world's longest-running children's show Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace Prince William may have just won some cool points from his ...
A pioneering TV producer who turned Blue Peter into a national institution has died at the age of 92, the BBC has confirmed. Biddy Baxter’s visionary leadership cemented the children's programme as a ...
Veteran TV star Peter Purves claims his biggest regret is taking a job as a presenter on the children’s show Blue Peter. But when the jobbing actor found himself out of work for a year after Doctor ...
Biddy Baxter, iconic Blue Peter editor, passed away at 92. She shaped the show for over 25 years, introducing the Blue Peter badge and charity drives. Praised as a trailblazer in children’s TV, she ...
Long-running children’s TV show Blue Peter has a new presenter joining the programme, in the form of puppet Hacker T Dog. Hacker T Dog has been a CBBC favourite for more than 16 years and has ...