Biddy Baxter was probably the most famous behind-the-scenes name in British television, her celebrity certainly greater than many of the stars of Blue Peter, the world’s longest-running children’s ...

Long-serving Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter, who turned the children's show into a television institution, has died at the age of 92. Her recipe of pets, charity appeals, gymnastic displays, foreign ...

Joan Maureen “Biddy” Baxter, the pioneering television producer who steered the BBC’s “Blue Peter” for more than two decades and turned it into a defining fixture of British childhood, has died at the ...

Whether you’ve collected foil for one of their appeals, used sticky-back plastic to create your very own Tracy island or bagged yourself a highly coveted badge, Blue Peter would have played a part in ...

Biddy Baxter, the pioneering television producer who transformed Blue Peter into a national institution, has died aged 92, the BBC said. As editor of the popular children’s programme between 1965 and ...

A pioneering TV producer who turned Blue Peter into a national institution has died at the age of 92, the BBC has confirmed. Biddy Baxter’s visionary leadership cemented the children's programme as a ...