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"BLUE PETER BUMPER
COLOURING BOOK"
COPYRIGHT 1974
BBC PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN
P.O.M. LIMITED
SEVENDALE HOUSE
MANCHESTER, UK
PRINTED IN FINLAND
OVER 100 PAGES
PAPERBACK
GLUE SPINE
SOME PAGES HAVE BEEN COLORED
MAYBE 10
SOME CONTENT INCLUDES:
LADY JANE GREY, ROYALTY
STUART PRINCE IN HIS KNIGHT ARMOUR
A SCOTTISH PIPER
A PARIS FASHION SHOW
EDINBUROUGH CASTLE
THE BRIGHTON BELLE STEAM TRAIN ENGINE
DINOSAURS
ROMUS REMUS MYTHOLOGY
BATHING PETRA
ST PETERS BASILICA
CAN YOU NAME THESE FLOWERS
STRAY CATS AT THE COLOSSEUM IN ROME
BUILDING A TONGAN HOUSE
WHAT TOOL IS WITH WHAT OCCUPATION
DANIEL LAMBERT, FAT MAN
HISTORICAL QUIZ
TALLEST & SMALLEST DOG
THE F.A. CUP
ARCTIC SURVIVAL
AND SO MUCH MORE...
SPNIE IS GOOD
COVER HAS SOME FOLD
EDGES ARE BUMPED
AS STATED - SOME COLORING HAS BEEN DONE
BUT ONLY MINIMAL PART
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FYI
Blue Peter, first broadcast in 1958, is the world's longest-running children's television programme. Although the show has a nautical title and theme, its current format takes the form of a magazine/entertainment show containing viewer and presenter challenges, as well as the famous arts and crafts "makes" (see below). It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time. The show uses a studio for the main format of the presenting; there is also a garden, often referred to as the Blue Peter Garden, which is used during the summer months or for outdoor activities. The current presenters are Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood.
On 16 May 2012, the BBC announced that, later in 2012, children's television programmes including Blue Peter would cease to be broadcast on BBC One and would be broadcast only on the CBBC Channel.
Content
Blue Peter's content is very wide-ranging. Most programmes are broadcast live, but usually include at least one filmed report. There will also often be a demonstration of an activity in the studio, and/or a music or dance performance. Between the 1960s and 2011 the programme was made at BBC Television Centre, and often came from Studio 1, which is the fourth largest TV studio in Britain and amongst the largest in Europe. This enabled Blue Peter to include large-scale demonstrations and performances within the live programme. From the September 2007 series, the programme was broadcast from a small fixed set in Studio 2. However from 2009, the series began to use the larger studios once more; also more programmes were broadcast in their entirety from the Blue Peter Garden. The show is also famous for its "makes", which are demonstrations of how to construct a useful object or prepare food. These have given rise to the oft-used phrase "Here's one I made earlier", as presenters bring out a perfect and completed version of the object they are making — a phrase credited to Christopher Trace. Trace also used the line "And now for something completely different", which was later taken up by Monty Python. Time is also often given over to reading letters and showing pictures sent in by viewers.
History
Blue Peter was first aired on 16 October 1958. It had been commissioned to producer John Hunter Blair by Owen Reed, the head of children's programmes at the BBC, as there were no programmes in existence that catered for children aged between five and eight. Reed got his inspiration after watching Children's Television Club, the brainchild of former radio producer, Trevor Hill, who created it as a successor to his programme Out of School, broadcast on BBC Radio's Children's Hour; Hill networked the programme from BBC Manchester and launched it aboard the Royal Iris paddle steamer on Merseyside with presenter Judith Chalmers welcoming everyone aboard at the bottom of the gangplank.
It was subsequently televised about once a month (see Hill's autobiography Over the Airwaves, Book Guild 2005). Hill relates how Reed came to stay with him and his wife, Margaret Potter, in Cheshire, and was so taken with the "Blue Peter" flag on the side of the ship and the programme in general, that he asked to rename it and take it to London to be broadcast on a weekly basis (see Reed's obituary). The "Blue Peter" is used as a maritime signal, indicating that the vessel flying it is about to leave, and Reed chose the name to represent 'a voyage of adventure' on which the programme would set out. Hunter Blair also pointed out that blue was a child's favourite colour, and Peter was the common name of a typical child's friend.
The first two presenters were Christopher Trace, an actor, and Leila Williams, winner of Miss Great Britain in 1957. The initial format mostly involved the two presenters demonstrating different activities, with Trace concentrating on traditional "boys' toys" such as model aeroplanes and trains, and Williams concentrating on dolls and traditional female tasks such as cookery. They were supported on occasion by Tony Hart, an artist who later designed the ship logo, who told stories about an elephant called Packi (or Packie). It was broadcast every Monday for fifteen minutes on BBC TV (which later became BBC One). Blue Peter was popular from the outset, and over the first few months more features were added, including competitions, documentaries, cartoons, and stories. Early programmes were almost entirely studio-based, with very few external films being created.
In 1961, Hunter Blair became ill, meaning he was often absent. After he produced his last edition on 12 June 1961, he was replaced the following September by Clive Parkhurst. He did not get along with Leila Williams, who recalled 'he could not find anything for me to do', and in October, Williams did not appear for six editions, and was eventually fired, leaving Christopher Trace on his own or with one-off presenters. Parkhurst was replaced by John Furness, and Anita West joined Trace on 7 May 1962. She featured on just 16 editions, making her the shortest serving presenter, and was replaced by Valerie Singleton, who presented regularly until 1972, and on special assignments until 1981. Following the departure of Furness, a new producer who was committed to Blue Peter was required, so Biddy Baxter was appointed. At the time she was contracted to schools' programmes on the radio, and therefore unable to take up her new post immediately.
The Blue Peter pets are the animals who regularly appear on the programme. These include dogs, cats, parrots and tortoises. Among the most recent Blue Peter Pets are: a dog, a red setter-dachshund called Barney; two cats, one called Socks and one called Cookie; and one tortoise called Shelley. Mabel retired on 30 March 2010 after 14 years on the show. The latest pet to join is 2-year-old Barney, a red setter-dachshund, who made his TV debut on Tuesday 22 September 2009. Lucy, a golden retriever, died aged 13 in late March 2011. Socks and Cookie make only occasional visits to the new studio in Salford as they live in London, as does Shelley the tortoise.
The presenters also maintain the famous Blue Peter Garden. The original garden, adjacent to Television Centre, which was designed by Percy Thrower in 1974. Its features include an Italian sunken garden with a pond, which contains goldfish, a vegetable patch, greenhouse and viewing platform. George the Tortoise was interred in the garden following his death in 2004, and there is also a bust of the dog Petra, sculptures of Mabel and the Blue Peter ship, and a plaque in honour of Percy Thrower. The 2000 Blue Peter time capsule was buried in the Garden and later relocated to the current location, where it is due to be opened in 2029. The garden is also available to other programmes for outside broadcasts, and is often used for the links between children's programmes during the summer months and for BBC One's Breakfast weather broadcasts.
When the programme's production base moved to Salford MediaCityUK in September 2011, the entire Garden, including the sculptures and the sunken pond, was carefully relocated to the piazza of the new studio facility. It was officially (re)opened on Thursday 23 February 2012 by HRH The Princess Royal.
On the Monday 21 November 1983 edition, Janet Ellis reported that over the weekend the garden had been vandalised, the report contained an on-air appeal for viewers to come forward with information—which now often appears on clip shows, the garden had been vandalised previously in 1978. A rumour circulated in the early 1990s that the vandalism had been carried out by a gang including the footballers Dennis Wise and Les Ferdinand when they were teenagers. Both men have denied direct involvement in the actual vandalism, although Ferdinand did later appear to confess to "helping a few people over the wall." Later still, however, Ferdinand claimed that his admission of involvement had merely been a joke, and that he had not been involved at all.
Badge
Children (and adults) who appear on the show or achieve something notable may be awarded the coveted Blue Peter badge. The Blue Peter badge allows holders free entry into a number of visitor attractions across the UK. In March 2006, this privilege was temporarily suspended after a number of badges were discovered for sale on the auction site. This suspension was lifted in June 2006, when a new "Blue Peter Badge Card" was introduced to combat the problem, which is issued to each badge winner to prove that they are the rightful owners.
The presenters almost always wear their badge; the only exception being when their apparel is incompatible (for example, a life jacket), in which case a sticker with the ship emblem is normally used instead. In addition, large prints or stickers of the ship are attached to vehicles driven by the presenters Barney Harwood and Helen Skelton during filming assignments.
In addition to the standard "blue" badge, several variations of the badge exist, for various achievements, including:
Silver badges, For sending in a letter or poem to the show when you already have the blue badge
Green badges, for contributions with a conservation, nature or environmental theme
Gold badges, the most rarely awarded, for exceptional achievement
Competition winners orange badges, for competition winners (replacing the previous circular "competition winner's badge")
Purple badges, awarded for completing a review of the show by completing the form on the Blue Peter website
50th anniversary badge, awarded for sending a picture, poem or letter on the subject of the programme's 50th birthday
Factbyte factory badge, Awarded to people who completed up to V.I.P. level 7 on the Factbyte factory online game on the official Blue Peter Website in 2009.
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