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 ...

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 ...

Sarah Green, Simon Groom and Peter Duncan were invited by Lord Mayor of Leeds, Doreen Jenner, to open Armley Mills Museum in the city. This was first broadcast on 3 June 1982.

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 ...

Whether you’ve collected foil for one of their appeals, used sticky-back plastic to create your very own Tracy island or bagged yourself a highly coveted badge, Blue Peter would have played a part in ...

The announcement that the BBC is to stop broadcasting live episodes of its flagship children’s series, Blue Peter, has prompted an outcry even louder than the knitwear the show’s hosts sported during ...

"John Noakes died peacefully on Sunday morning, May 28th," his family said in a statement. Martyn Goodacre//Getty Images "He had endured and suffered from Alzheimer's over recent years and whilst he ...