Summary
Although I gave up attending literary launch parties years ago (the same faces, the same drunks), I made an exception for the soiree celebrating Dear Blue Peter, a fascinating selection of the letters sent in to Britain's best-loved children's programme, edited by the redoubtable Biddy Baxter who oversaw the show from 1962 until 1988.
I wanted to tell Biddy to her face that apart from wise old Jack Hargreaves on How! puffing his pipe and describing the inscrutable habits of the feather-footed vole, Blue Peter was the only normal and nice thing in an entire youth otherwise burdened with shouting, smacking and being bullied.See the full content of this document
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Dear Blue Peter... You Saved My Life
Blue Peter was like a wholesome Enid Blyton ethos come to life, where children were taken seriously and weren't in the way. It made me want to become middle-class, where lunch wasn't calle...
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