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Hey kids, today we're going to learn how to write an article on All The Tropes using nothing but a keyboard, some sticky-back plastic and an empty washing-up bottle. But first, here's [[One I Prepared Earlier]]:
''Blue Peter'' is the longest running children's program in the world, starting in 1958 and still going today. Usually airs on [[BBC 1]], but moves to [[BBC 2]] during [[Wimbledon]].
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There are often performances by various people. Everyone who appears on the show gets a Blue Peter Badge, which allows free admission to a number of UK attractions. There are other types of badges, the most famous being the Gold Badge, given to people who have done something very special (presenters are now getting them on departure).
Every year, the team go on a Summer Expedition abroad. There is also the annual charity appeal, with the "totaliser" and the attendant "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|bring-and-buy sales]]" - usually, the charity appeals run on a biannual schedule of these and 'collecting X'
The show has a number of resident pets. The most famous of these was a dog called Petra (actually a substitute after the first dog died), whose death became national news.
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* Tina Heath, who was asked to leave the show because she had become pregnant outside wedlock, had no intention of marrying the chap, and was therefore a Fallen Woman And Not The Sort Of Example, Good Lord, No.
* Diane Louise-Jordan, who joined some years after Heath's departure, represented a different emphasis. In the politically right-on caring 1990's, it didn't matter that D-L-J was an unmarried single mother, as she was also Black British, and the BBC had been ordered to be more inclusive to minorities. Diane-Louise became the first non-white Blue Peter presenter, just in time for the summer expedition to the Deep South of the USA...
** HRH Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, was a guest presenter on the show between
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* In 2007, there was a handful of scandals about "rigged" audience participation events, including a child who was backstage apparently winning a phone-in competition when the lines went down; the decision to ignore an internet vote on the name of the new cat; and two actors being amongst the kids interviewing impressionist John Culshaw, to ensure the right sort of questions got asked.
At the time of writing, May
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