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 age of 92,

Peter Salmon, a senior BBC executive who worked on Blue Peter as a junior producer, summed up what he thought was the secret of Baxter's success. "She got the diet just right for Middle England - meat and potatoes, all the greens in the right place. And sponge pudding to follow. It's comfortable and regular. Sometimes you'll even enjoy it."

Blue Peter legend Biddy Baxter dies aged 92 as tributes pour in for children's TV pioneer - Baxter took over as editor of Blue Peter in 1965, several years after the programme’s launch