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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

THE GERRY ANDERSON STORY

Just over the old railway bridge from my house, down the hill to where the footpath crosses the brook by the church, that’s Pooh Sticks Bridge, where we stop for a game of Pooh Sticks when we go for a

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

A TRUE PROFESSIONAL May I sing the praises ...

Although associated with the 1960s, Pick of the Pops began in 1955 on the BBC Light Programme. The 4 October listing in the Radio Times reads: “Presented by Franklin Engelmann in which Jingle (assiste