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
A new biography of Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter has claimed the BBC did not forcibly separate presenter John Noakes and Shep the dog when the star left the show in 1977.
The biography of Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter claims the BBC did not forcibly separate John Noakes and Shep when the presenter said he was leaving the show in 1977.