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Dogs, badges, sticky-back plastic - even that mishap with the elephant - Blue Peter has been an integral part of British chidhoods for half a century, ever since that famous duo, Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton, went on air.
Dogs, badges, sticky-back plastic - even that mishap with the elephant - Blue Peter has been an integral part of British chidhoods for half a century, ever since that famous duo, Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton, went on air.
As the programme celebrates its 50th anniversary, Biddy Baxter - the show's legendary editor and the woman who used the Blue Peter badge to encourage children to write in - reveals an extraordinary correspondence that, by the late 1980s, saw the presenters and production staff receiving an average of 7,000 letters a week.
Original, moving, often very funny, sometimes abusive, the letters in which children (and `big kids') offered their ideas, pictures and stories provide a unique snapshot of life in the 20th century - of people from all over Britain and beyond, and from every conceivable background.
Complete with archive photographs and Biddy Baxter's own commentary, this is a book for anyone who ever ran home to switch on the telly, who collected milk bottle tops, stamps and old cans for the Appeals and who coveted a Blue Peter badge of their own.
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Biddy Baxter was the editor of Blue Peter, from 1962 to 1988. She was awarded a gold badge herself when she stood down as editor from the programme.
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