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Radio Times Top 100 shows: Russell T Davies and more count down the best

Russell T Davies, Sarah Phelps, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ann Cleeves and more count down the best of TV and radio over the past 100 years.

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Biddy Baxter and the perils of remembering the past

I’ve been reading the cracking, crackling new biography Biddy Baxter: The Woman Who Made Blue Peter by Richard Marson (he’s a friend, but I wouldn’t sell you a pup). There is always fun to be had in the gap between the transmitted, necessarily anodyne, product of children’s TV and the real-life shenanigans backstage, and the story of

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Children loved her show but she ran Blue Peter with a rod of iron, terrifying the presenters and bosses alike No wonder they said that, behind the smile, Biddy Baxter was scarier than the Daleks!

For 26 years, from 1962 until her retirement in 1988, Biddy, from Leicester, edited Blue Peter, the twice-weekly magazine show.

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Leah Williamson designs Blue Peter sport badge to inspire next generation

Leah Williamson designs Blue Peter sport badge to inspire next generation
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Biddy Baxter put the Blue in Peter, says RICHARD MADELEY

Biddy Baxter is the kind of boss they don t make these days, writes Richard Madeley.

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