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Dear Blue Peter ...: The Best of 50 Years of Letters to Britain's Favourite Children's Programme by Biddy Baxter (Hardcover, 2008)

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Blue Peter, which celebrates 50 years on television this year, means something to children of every generation from the 1960s onwards - whether it's the theme tune, the pets, the endless sticky-back plastic, or the legendary mishaps . But one little known aspect of the programme is the extraordinary correspondence it generated almost from the day that John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and co, first went on the air. By the late 80s, Blue Peter was receiving an average of 7,000 letters per week. In this wonderfully entertaining book, Biddy Baxter - the programme's editor for 26 years, and the woman who used the Blue Peter badge to encourage children to write in with ideas, pictures and stories - reproduces some of the very best letters received. Original, engrossing, funny - and sometimes remarkably rude - they provide a unique record of life in the second half of the 20th century, of people all over Britain (and further afield) and children of every conceivable background.

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Publisher
Short Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781906021498
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90318313

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Book Title
Dear Blue Peter ...: the Best of 50 Years of Letters to Britain's Favourite Children's Programme
Author
Biddy Baxter
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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202mm
Item Width
158mm
Item Weight
560g

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Biddy Baxter
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by auds078631 Aug, 2018
Dear Blue Peter
A wonderfully reminiscent snapshot of my childhood. Biddy Baxter truly cared about the viewers sending individual replies to both children and adults often many times over. Real dialogues. Lovely to see those original letters, funny, heartwarming and at times frank. Brilliant step back in time . Interesting to see how polite the letters were to Blue Peter. Wholeheartedly recommend!
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by libri_452526 Nov, 2020
Fascinating read.
Fascinating read. I used to work in the Blue Peter correspondence unit. Great memories of this long running programme.
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