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Biddy Baxter
British television producer (born 1933)
Joan Maureen "Biddy" Baxter, MBE (born 25 May 1933) is a British television producer, best known for editing the long-running BBC TV children's magazine show Blue Peter from 1962 to 1988.
As editor of the programme, Baxter devised much of the format that is still used today.
Biography
Early life
Baxter was born on 25 May 1933 at Regent Hospital, Leicester, Leicestershire, to Bryan Reginald Baxter and Dorothy Vera, née Briers.[1] Her father was a teacher, who later became the director of a sportswear company, and her mother was a pianist.[2]: 21 She was educated at Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School, Leicester and St Mary's, a women's college at Durham University, where she studied between 1952 and 1955.[3]
At a meeting with the careers officer at her university, Baxter noticed information about working for the BBC.
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