‘the female john noakes’

A TRUE PROFESSIONAL May I sing the praises ...

Biddy Baxter was the single most important figure in the history of Blue Peter. She rarely appeared on screen in the long-running children’s magazine show herself but was nevertheless more famous than

YOUR text message sounded quite urgent,” Jane said. “Nothing wrong at the shop, is there?” She and her daughter had met for coffee at Caravaggio’s. On the other side of the small market square stood t

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

Today I am sitting at a well-scrubbed kitchen table in a Cotswold kitchen, warmed by a Delft blue Rayburn. My hostess offers me a slice of fruitcake baked by her husband – baking is something Bill has

There are a few names in the history of British television that will always be writ large. One of them is Biddy Baxter, who joined Blue Peter as its producer in 1962, becoming its editor from 1965 to