"Blue Peter ship logo, designed by Tony Hart. The badge provides the wearer with free entry to many British attractions, particularly museums and exhibitions that are featured on the show although many of the attractions will only allow one badge holder for each full price paying adult. The programme producers suspended the privileges amid concerns about the badges being sold in March 2006, but they were reintroduced with additional security a few months later. The presenters almost always wear their badges on the show – the only exception being when their apparel is incompatible (for example, a life jacket), in"
"Blue Peter Blue Peter is a British children's television programme that was first broadcast in 1958. The programme, which has had continuous seasons since it was first aired, is now the longest-running children's TV show in the world. It is currently shown live on the CBBC television channel. The show's content, which follows a magazine/entertainment format, features viewer and presenter challenges, competitions, celebrity interviews, popular culture and sections on making arts and crafts items from household items. The longevity of ""Blue Peter"" has established itself as a significant part of British culture. It was broadcast mainly from BBC Television Centre"
"""Blue Peter""'s dog Petra, a lion bust at Gloucester's Nature in Art museum, a lifesize ""Sumatran white rhino"" at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Canterbury and a 15 ft ""elephant fountain"" at Saint Louis Zoo. Other cartoons he produced include ""Bengo the Boxer puppy"" and ""Wuff, Snuff and Tuff"". William Timym William Timym, (1901–1990) was an artist whose best known work is probably the ""Bleep and Booster"" cartoons for the BBC's ""Blue Peter"". Timym (pronounced Tim) was Austrian, grew up in Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He moved to England in 1938 because of the"
"Blue Peter badge A ""Blue Peter"" badge is an award for ""Blue Peter"" viewers, given by the BBC children's television programme for those appearing on the show, or in recognition of achievement. They are awarded to children aged 6 to 15, or to adults who have been guests on the programme. Approximately 22,000 are distributed annually. The badges were introduced to the programme by editor Biddy Baxter in 1963, from an idea by ""Blue Peter"" producer Edward Barnes. Except for the ""Gold"" badge and the pre-2005 ""Competition Winners' Badge"", the badges are in the shape of a shield containing the"
"Tony Hart Norman Antony Hart (15 October 1925 – 18 January 2009) was an English artist and children's television presenter. He started off as an officer in a Gurkha regiment but became famous for being a children's presenter and artist on television shows such as ""Vision On"", ""Playbox"", ""Take Hart"" and ""Hartbeat"", often accompanied by Morph. He also created the ""Blue Peter"" ship logo. Hart was interested in drawing from an early age. He attended All Saints, Margaret Street Resident Choir School and then Clayesmore School in Dorset, where art was his best subject. Hart left school in 1943 and"
"Peter website. Blue Peter badge A ""Blue Peter"" badge is an award for ""Blue Peter"" viewers, given by the BBC children's television programme for those appearing on the show, or in recognition of achievement. They are awarded to children aged 6 to 15, or to adults who have been guests on the programme. Approximately 22,000 are distributed annually. The badges were introduced to the programme by editor Biddy Baxter in 1963, from an idea by ""Blue Peter"" producer Edward Barnes. Except for the ""Gold"" badge and the pre-2005 ""Competition Winners' Badge"", the badges are in the shape of a shield"
"Hart also created the original design for the ""Blue Peter"" badge, also used as the programme's logo. He originally asked for his fee to be paid as a royalty of 1d (one pre-decimalisation penny) for each badge made, but was offered a flat fee of £100 (equivalent to around £1,600 at 2006 rates). The badges are famous throughout the UK and have been coveted by successive generations of ""Blue Peter"" viewers. Hart received two BAFTA awards. His first, for Best Children's Educational Programme, came in 1984 for ""Take Hart"", and he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. He"
"original opening titles showed a Blue Peter flag being lowered on a ship. In 1979 it was updated by Mike Oldfield, and again in the 1990s. From the 2008 series onwards it became a rendition of the similar ""Sailor's Hornpipe"". However, from 14 October 2008, the tune has become a blend of both tunes. The programme's motif is a stylised sailing ship designed by Tony Hart. Hart's original design was never successfully used in a totally uniform fashion, with several different reproductions used in studio, on badges, the ""Blue Peter"" books and on-screen graphics. This was until the show's redesign"
"Mike Oldfield"" video. Blue Peter (instrumental) ""Blue Peter"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1979 on the Virgin label. It is a rendition of the theme tune for the British children's television show ""Blue Peter"" and was used by the show between 1979 and 1989. The royalties from the single went to the Cambodia appeal launched by the children's show. It charted at number 19 in the UK Singles Chart. Mike Oldfield's version of the ""Blue Peter"" theme was the first time the arrangement had changed since the programme began in 1958, and it had its genesis"
"Blue Peter (instrumental) ""Blue Peter"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1979 on the Virgin label. It is a rendition of the theme tune for the British children's television show ""Blue Peter"" and was used by the show between 1979 and 1989. The royalties from the single went to the Cambodia appeal launched by the children's show. It charted at number 19 in the UK Singles Chart. Mike Oldfield's version of the ""Blue Peter"" theme was the first time the arrangement had changed since the programme began in 1958, and it had its genesis in his appearance"
"suffered while trying for a fourth child. Away from writing and broadcasting Ellis is a Board Member of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, a Patron of Maggie's Centres, a patron of Humanists UK, and a Council and Honorary Member of the National Youth Theatre. Ellis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to charity and theatre. Janet Ellis Janet Michell Ellis, (born 16 September 1955) is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the BBC children's television programmes ""Blue Peter"" and ""Jigsaw"" between 1979"
"having been her owner for more than nine years. There is a bust of Petra in the ""Blue Peter"" garden. It originally stood in front of BBC Television Centre but was moved to the garden in 1984 due to redevelopment works and now stands in the current garden at MediaCityUK. It was later revealed that the original (unnamed) puppy had died of distemper a few days after her first appearance on ""Blue Peter"", broadcast just before Christmas 1962. Instead of informing viewers, and feeling there was no need to upset children needlessly, the programme's director and producer Edward Barnes and"
"Peter"" won the BAFTA for Best Children's Programme (Factual): Lewis Bronze. In 2008 ""Blue Peter"" was nominated for the BAFTA Children's Kids Vote Award. Asteroid 16197 Bluepeter is named in its honour. The asteroid was discovered on 7 January 2000, the day that the ""Blue Peter"" time capsules from 1971 and 1984 were unearthed. Blue Peter Blue Peter is a British children's television programme that was first broadcast in 1958. The programme, which has had continuous seasons since it was first aired, is now the longest-running children's TV show in the world. It is currently shown live on the CBBC"
"producer was looking for paper, Hart became resident artist on the ""Saturday Special"" programme. Subsequent TV shows included ""Playbox"" (1954–59), ""Tich and Quackers"", ""Vision On"" (1964–76) ""Take Hart"" (1977–83), ""Hartbeat"" (1984–93), ""Artbox Bunch"" (1995–96) and ""Smart Hart"" (1999–2000). From the 1970s, he often appeared alongside the animated Plasticine stop-motion character Morph, created by Peter Lord of Aardman Animations. Hart was a regular face on the BBC children's programme ""Blue Peter"" in the 1950s and presented a number of programmes in 1959. Richard Marson's book ""Blue Peter: Inside the Archives"" lists Hart as a presenter in November 1959 but he is"
"much-repeated items from this era include the Girl Guides' campfire that got out of hand on the 1970 Christmas edition, John Noakes's report on the cleaning of Nelson's Column, and Simon Groom referring to a previous item on the production of a facsimile door knocker for Durham Cathedral which was displayed alongside the original, with the words 'what a beautiful pair of knockers'. ""Blue Peter"" was first aired on 16 October 1958. It had been commissioned to producer John Hunter Blair by Owen Reed, the head of children's programmes at the BBC, as there were no programmes for children aged"
"""Blue Peter"" extensive correspondence, also retired early, and the two sisters travelled extensively in Europe and North America, until Hazel died of cancer in 2001. Rosemary Gill died in February 2011, aged 80. Rosemary Gill Rosemary Ffolkes Gill (7 December 1930 – 22 February 2011) was an English children's television producer connected with ""Blue Peter"", ""Multi-Coloured Swap Shop"" and ""Saturday Superstore"". Gill was born in London to a schoolmaster and former nurse; the family lived in Camden Town. Her parents had met at Craiglockhart, near Edinburgh, where her mother was then working, the building being used as a military psychiatric"
"Richard Marson Richard Marson (born c.1967) is an English writer, television producer and director, best known as a former editor-in-chief of the BBC's children's television programme ""Blue Peter"". In September 2007, Marson was sacked from his post for making an editorial decision on the naming of the new ""Blue Peter"" cat, thus overriding the results of online vote on the programme in January 2006. Despite this, he remains the programme's ""unofficial historian"". Marson has directed and produced a number of documentaries, including ""Children's TV on Trial"", ""Upstairs Downstairs Remembered"", and ""Tales of Television Centre"" (2012). Marson won his first Blue"
"Valerie Singleton Valerie Singleton, OBE (born 9 April 1937) is an English television and radio presenter best known as a presenter of the popular children's series ""Blue Peter"" from 1962-1972. She also presented the BBC Radio 4 ""PM"" programme for ten years as well as a series of radio and television programmes on financial and business issues. She is the daughter of an ex-RAF wing commander from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, named Dennis Singleton, later an advertising manager. She was educated at Frensham Heights School in Surrey and at the independent Arts Educational School, Tring Park in Hertfordshire. Singleton wanted to be"
"appeared in December 2017 in a tribute programme to fellow Blue Peter presenter, John Noakes, who had died earlier that year. On 16 October 2018, she appeared on BBC Breakfast and later that day on Blue Peter to celebrate their sixtieth anniversary. Lesley Judd Lesley Judd (born 20 December 1946) is an English dancer and television presenter, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme ""Blue Peter"". Born in London, Judd was educated at the independent Arts Educational School, Tring Park in Hertfordshire. One of Judd's earliest appearances was as a child actor, playing a schoolgirl in"
"""The Magic Flute"" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Her book choice was ""The Traveller's Tree"" by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Biddy Baxter Joan Maureen ""Biddy"" Baxter, MBE (born 25 May 1933) is best known as the former editor of the long-running BBC TV children’s magazine show ""Blue Peter"", a position she held from 1965 to 1988. As editor of the programme, Baxter devised much of the format that is still used today. She was born Joan Maureen Baxter in Leicester to a teacher father who became the director of a sportswear company and a mother who was a pianist. She was educated"
"be published. She was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in 2001 when she was surprised by Michael Aspel. Earlier, in 1974, she had been the featured castaway on ""Desert Island Discs"". Valerie Singleton Valerie Singleton, OBE (born 9 April 1937) is an English television and radio presenter best known as a presenter of the popular children's series ""Blue Peter"" from 1962-1972. She also presented the BBC Radio 4 ""PM"" programme for ten years as well as a series of radio and television programmes on financial and business issues. She is the daughter of an ex-RAF wing commander from"
"Biddy Baxter Joan Maureen ""Biddy"" Baxter, MBE (born 25 May 1933) is best known as the former editor of the long-running BBC TV children’s magazine show ""Blue Peter"", a position she held from 1965 to 1988. As editor of the programme, Baxter devised much of the format that is still used today. She was born Joan Maureen Baxter in Leicester to a teacher father who became the director of a sportswear company and a mother who was a pianist. She was educated at Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School, Leicester and St Mary's, a women's college at Durham University, which she attended"
"well as the letters of the logo and the ""Blue Peter"" ship logo were floating around in the titles. This sequence is designed by Liquid. It looks similar to the 1999–2004 and 2004–2006 ones. General notes: The opening titles of every programme featured the list of the presenters in order of their first appearance on ""Blue Peter"", regardless of whether they actually appear in the edition in question (after 1995 and the introduction of the fourth presenter it was unusual to have all four presenters in the studio at the same time, save for special programmes). The only time this"
"to, Monty Python, and ""Here's one I made earlier"", since adopted by nearly all subsequent presenters on ""Blue Peter"". Christopher Trace Christopher Leonard Trace (21 March 1933 – 5 September 1992) was an English actor and television presenter, notable for his nine years as a presenter of the BBC children's programme ""Blue Peter"". Trace was the youngest of three children born to Edith (née Morley) and Lawrence Archibald Trace. His two older siblings were Ann and David Morley Trace. Trace was educated at Cranleigh School, a boarding independent school in the town of Cranleigh in Surrey, which he left early."
"John Noakes John Noakes (born John W. Bottomley; 6 March 1934 – 28 May 2017) was an English television presenter and personality, best known for co-presenting the BBC children's magazine programme ""Blue Peter"" in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the show's longest-serving presenter, with a tenure that lasted 12 years and 6 months. Noakes was born John Bottomley, in Shelf near Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Sallie Hinchcliffe (née Hampson) and Arthur W. Bottomley. He was educated at Rishworth School where he excelled in cross country running and gymnastics. His parents divorced when he was nine and he"
"Michael Sundin Michael Sundin (1 March 1961 – 23 July 1989) was an English television presenter, actor, dancer and trampolinist. He was a presenter of the BBC children's programme ""Blue Peter"" presenter for 77 episodes between 1984 and 1985. Michael Sundin was born in Low Fell, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. His parents were Alan and Joyce Sundin, and he had a brother named David. After winning five British titles and one world title in British & World Trampolining tournaments, he entered show business in 1980 when he appeared in the pantomime ""Jack and the Beanstalk"", with Barbara Windsor. Sundin made"
"William Timym William Timym, (1901–1990) was an artist whose best known work is probably the ""Bleep and Booster"" cartoons for the BBC's ""Blue Peter"". Timym (pronounced Tim) was Austrian, grew up in Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He moved to England in 1938 because of the Nazi occupation of Austria and during the Second World War produced a number of works for the Ministry of Information. He became a naturalised British citizen in April 1949. He was also a bronze sculptor and created many realistic (rather than stylised) wildlife sculptures. These include a statue of"
"behaviour by the producer, the last of which resulted in the book making front page headlines in some tabloid newspapers. Richard Marson's son Rupert Marson, 14, died at their St. Albans home in 2008. Police were called to the house on the morning of 8 June, whereupon Rupert Marson was pronounced dead at the scene. At the inquest a verdict of ""accidental death"" was declared. Richard Marson Richard Marson (born c.1967) is an English writer, television producer and director, best known as a former editor-in-chief of the BBC's children's television programme ""Blue Peter"". In September 2007, Marson was sacked from"
"designed by Susannah Leah, a schoolgirl from Todmorden, who won a competition on ""Blue Peter"", a children's programme that challenged its viewers to imagine a TARDIS console based on household objects. Leah's design was selected by Moffat, Edward Thomas, the production designer for the previous series, and Tim Levell, a ""Blue Peter"" editor, along with final input among the three age-group winners from Smith. Michael Pickwoad, the production designer for Series 6, commented that Leah's design captured the nature of ""bits and pieces"" of what TARDIS consoles have been in the past, as well as the nature of the makeshift"
"dancer in the video for Rick Astley's ""She Wants to Dance With Me"" (1988). In 1988 Sundin fell ill. At the age of 28, he died in the Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. ""The Times"" newspaper reported (on 26 July 1989) that he had died of liver cancer. Earlier the same year Sundin had denied having AIDS. Michael Sundin Michael Sundin (1 March 1961 – 23 July 1989) was an English television presenter, actor, dancer and trampolinist. He was a presenter of the BBC children's programme ""Blue Peter"" presenter for 77 episodes between 1984 and 1985. Michael Sundin was"
"a social sciences degree, Baxter joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1955, becoming a producer of schools' English programmes in 1958, and of ""Listen with Mother"" in 1961. After moving to a temporary post in 1962 within BBC Television owing to a staff shortage, she gained a permanent post as producer of ""Blue Peter"" from November 1962, and remained directly responsible for the programme for just over a quarter of a century. First broadcast on 16 October 1958, ""Blue Peter"" had originally been devised by John Hunter Blair, but it was Baxter and her deputy Edward Barnes, later"
"management that handle copyright and licensing. In January 2012 Semple opened the new North Light Centre for Art and Design at Bournemouth & Poole College and judges a yearly competition of the student's works. Semple has spoken at The ICA, The Institute of Ideas, CultureLabel, Amnesty, Jerwood Visual Arts for his digital activity, and for DACS on digital and copyright topics. in 2005, Semple was the youngest member appointed to the Design and Artists Copyright Society creators’ council. Stuart Semple has featured on the BBC in 2009 for ""Blue Peter"" and in 2011 and 2014 he presented for the BBC's"
"Golden Jubilee in 2002, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was responsible for coordinating the Cabinet-led aspects of the celebrations. Events were planned so as to keep the use of tax money to a minimum; most funds used to fund celebrations were drawn from private donors and sponsors. Only the cost of security was by Her Majesty's Treasury. The British logo for the Diamond Jubilee was selected through a contest held by the BBC children's programme ""Blue Peter""; the winning design, announced in February 2011, was created by ten-year-old Katherine Dewar. Drupal, a free open-source content management system, was"