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 ...

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 ...

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 ...