Qualla: Blue Peter https://qualla.com/blue-peter en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/blue-peter-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Blue Peter https://qualla.com/blue-peter Blue Peter: Introduction https://qualla.com/blue-peter/ Photo credit Lee Jordan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Here's one I made earlier. Four words, said in a thousand studio kitchens, by presenters demonstrating how to build something from a washing-up bottle and sticky-back plastic, and the children of Britain knew exactly what they meant. Blue Peter has been on the air since 16 October 1958, which makes it the longest-running children's television programme in the world. Generations of British children have grown up with its hornpipe theme tune, its ship-shaped badge, its rotating cast of dogs and tortoises and presenters, and the slightly chaotic sense that anything could happen on live television - because, for sixty-six years, it usually did.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/blue-peter-wp/gcpv-blue-peter-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Blue Peter: A Voyage of Adventure https://qualla.com/blue-peter/ Photo credit SummersStory, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name comes from the sea. The Blue Peter is the maritime signal flag a ship flies when it is about to leave port, and when the show's creators were looking for a name in 1958, that idea of a journey just beginning was exactly what they wanted. The original presenters were Chri...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/blue-peter-wp/gcpv-blue-peter-a-voyage-of-adventure.mp3 0:06 2 full Blue Peter: The Architect Behind the Curtain https://qualla.com/blue-peter/ Photo credit Public domain. The person who shaped Blue Peter more than any other was Biddy Baxter, who arrived as a producer in 1962 and stayed for nearly twenty-six years, twenty-three of them as editor. Baxter had once written, as a child, to Enid Blyton and received a standard form reply that arrived twi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/blue-peter-wp/gcpv-blue-peter-the-architect-behind-the-curtain.mp3 0:06 3 full Blue Peter: Lulu, Petra, and Live Television https://qualla.com/blue-peter/ Photo credit Public domain. What people remember most about Blue Peter is what went wrong on live television, and there is a lot to remember. In 1969, a baby elephant called Lulu was brought into the studio and proceeded to relieve herself enthusiastically on the floor, then appeared to tread on presenter J...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/blue-peter-wp/gcpv-blue-peter-lulu-petra-and-live-television.mp3 0:06 4 full Blue Peter: The Garden, the Badge, the Appeals https://qualla.com/blue-peter/ Photo credit MilborneOne, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Blue Peter Garden was opened in 1974 in a green space outside the BBC Television Centre restaurant, designed by the horticulturalist Percy Thrower. It had a sunken Italian section with a goldfish pond, a vegetable patch, a greenhouse. Petra was commemorated there with a bust ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/blue-peter-wp/gcpv-blue-peter-the-garden-the-badge-the-appeals.mp3 0:06 5 full Blue Peter: Survival in the Streaming Age https://qualla.com/blue-peter/ Photo credit Bombanna, CC BY-SA 4.0. The show moved north in 2011, from Television Centre in London to MediaCityUK in Salford, and a second garden was opened there by Princess Anne in 2012. It moved again in 2025, to Campfield Studios in central Manchester. After sixty-six years of mostly live broadcasts, Blue Peter...

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