Biddy Baxter's guest appearances

Biddy Baxter

Desert Island Discs

Inheritance Tracks: Inheritance Tracks 2008-2011

Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast

Inheritance Tracks

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015

SNS Online

Pam Ayres

Robert Harris

Ruth Jones

Jilly Cooper

Tracey Thorn

Peter Tatchell

Ruth Rogers

Celia Birtwell

Bob Harris

Nicola Benedetti

Alexei Sayle

Sarah Dunant

Terry Wogan

Anna Del Conte

Sandie Shaw

OwlTail

In celebration of 60 glorious years of what is officially the most popular children's programme of all time, BAFTA award winning Blue Peter Editor, Biddy Baxter MBE, joins Nick Randell in the studio to talk in-depth about a show that was only intended to run for six weeks as a summer filler! Fully illustrated. Includes The Soundtrack of Your Life.Blue Peter letters read out by Derek Clark, Neva Missirian, Nathan Dodd, Charlotte Dodd, Dominic Delargy, Sarah Crawley, Sylvia Delargy Crawley, Nick Delargy Crawley, Victoria Hastings, Nishtat Ladha, Mike Regaard, Hala Hindawi, Tom Burchell, Gwenllian Glyn, Fiona Fairmaner, Danny Cox, Kathy Clugston and Marion Marshall.With thanks to the BBC and Pansombat Suthep.Also available - "Happy 60th Birthday, Blue Peter!"https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-happy-60th-birthday-blue-peterOther shows in the "Rise Up, Women!" range -ATA Girlhttps://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-rise-up-women-ata-girlThe Remarkable Lives of the Suffragetteshttps://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-rise-up-women-the-remarkable-lives-of-the-suffragettesCarolyn Robertsonhttps://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-bitesized-series-5-rise-up-women-carolyn-robertsonSNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet).A donation has been made to Rights of Women.rightsofwomen.org.uk/Other shows currently in preparation...John Challis - actorJonny Benjamin MBE - mental health campaignerHowlround - radiophonic musiciansTrunchonbury - Norfolk music festival

In celebration of 60 glorious years of what is officially the most popular children's programme of all time, BAFTA award winning Blue Peter Editor, Biddy Baxter MBE, joins Nick Randell in the studio to talk in-depth about a show that was only intended to run for six weeks as a summer filler! Fully illustrated. Includes The Soundtrack of Your Life. Blue Peter letters read out by Derek Clark, Neva Missirian, Nathan Dodd, Charlotte Dodd, Dominic Delargy, Sarah Crawley, Sylvia Delargy Crawley, Nick Delargy Crawley, Victoria Hastings, Nishtat Ladha, Mike Regaard, Hala Hindawi, Tom Burchell, Gwenllian Glyn, Fiona Fairmaner, Danny Cox, Kathy Clugston and Marion Marshall. With thanks to the BBC and Pansombat Suthep. Also available - "Happy 60th Birthday, Blue Peter!" <a href="https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-happy-60th-birthday-blue-peter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-happy-60th-birthday-blue-peter</a> Other shows in the "Rise Up, Women!" range - ATA Girl <a href="https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-rise-up-women-ata-girl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-rise-up-women-ata-girl</a> The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes <a href="https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-rise-up-women-the-remarkable-lives-of-the-suffragettes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-rise-up-women-the-remarkable-lives-of-the-suffragettes</a> Carolyn Robertson <a href="https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-bitesized-series-5-rise-up-women-carolyn-robertson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-bitesized-series-5-rise-up-women-carolyn-robertson</a> SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). A donation has been made to Rights of Women. <a href="http://rightsofwomen.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rightsofwomen.org.uk/</a> Other shows currently in preparation... John Challis - actor Jonny Benjamin MBE - mental health campaigner Howlround - radiophonic musicians Trunchonbury - Norfolk music festival

SNS Online Series 5 -  "Rise Up, Women!"  Biddy Baxter MBE

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the TV producer and former Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter. In charge of Blue Peter for 23 highly successful years, she was responsible for the coveted Blue Peter badges, the multi-million pound charity fundraising appeals and a nationwide lust for something called sticky-backed plastic. Her masterstroke was getting the young audience involved; although the programme's weekly postbag of around seven thousand letters must have given her a few headaches.In spite of some early careers advice that, "no one from Durham has ever got into the BBC", her determination to make a career in broadcasting won out and across the decades her steely reputation kept the show at the top of the ratings and steered it through quite a few mishaps and the odd spot of 'scandal'.She says simply, "It was an exercise in trying to make children feel as if they belonged.".

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the TV producer and former Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter. In charge of Blue Peter for 23 highly successful years, she was responsible for the coveted Blue Peter badges, the multi-million pound charity fundraising appeals and a nationwide lust for something called sticky-backed plastic. Her masterstroke was getting the young audience involved; although the programme's weekly postbag of around seven thousand letters must have given her a few headaches. In spite of some early careers advice that, "no one from Durham has ever got into the BBC", her determination to make a career in broadcasting won out and across the decades her steely reputation kept the show at the top of the ratings and steered it through quite a few mishaps and the odd spot of 'scandal'. She says simply, "It was an exercise in trying to make children feel as if they belonged.".

Biddy Baxter: Passing By - Paul Robeson; The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart

Biddy Baxter reveals the truth about the Blue Peter Badge at the first night of Company at the Southwark Playhouse