Obituaries

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

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

THE GERRY ANDERSON STORY

Leo Varadkar’s velvet rage As a politician, the ...

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

Life after Michael It’s been a little over ...