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Having been omitted from the front cover of Book 15, Simon Groom became only the second Blue Peter presenter (Noakes enjoyed the accolade tw...

A very flamboyant cover for Blue Peter book number 15, devised and written by Biddy Baxter, Edward Barnes and John Adcock. Published ahead o...

    Over the decades, many Blue Peter presenters have had literary careers independent of their direct association with the programme. Somet...

Cansdale always with a surprise up his sleeves Many, many years ago, long even before Sir David Attenburgh famously refused his pensioner...

1977 was not just the year of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee celebrations, it was also the year that Blue Pete r teamed up with The Re...

The cover of the 14th Blue Peter book featured John, Peter and Lesley up in the studio director's control room, behind them a bank of mo...

Picture by Robert Broomfield Percy Thrower was already a well known national gardening icon long before he joined Blue Peter in 1974, having...