Lesley judd biography examples

Everyone of a certain age remembers Blue Peter and Magpie but which was best? There’s only one way to find out….

Whenever the subject of Blue Peter and Magpie arises (as it often does), the inevitable question is asked: which did you prefer? It’s a tricky question as I’m not sure I preferred or even particularly liked either of them. However, viewing options were severely limited in those days and you had Hobson’s Choice due to the fact they were broadcast simultaneously on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so you had to watch one of them. Each had it’s own quirkiness, style and irritating elements and, I would argue, both were intensely middle-class in their own ways, but so was the bulk of children’s television in the late 60s and early 70s.

Whatever you thought of those programmes, though, they were part of growing up and everyone over the age of 50 has memories of them. If not of content, certainly of the various presenters who, despi

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I knew Peter Purves had a crush on me, but inom secretly fancied John Noakes, says former Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd

By ANTONIA HOYLE, MAIL ON SUNDAY FEATURE WRITER
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Former Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd now lives in Spain

Short of being caught on camera cuddling up to his former co-star, it was about as close as Peter Purves could have komma to admitting an affair.

While promoting his memoirs last week, the ex-Blue Peter presenter described Lesley Judd as ‘gorgeous’. When asked if they had been något privat eller personligt, he first refused to comment and then incriminatingly blustered: ‘Could you blame me for sleeping with her? Even if inom, er, had.’

It was the latest in a series of confessions from the programme’s heyday – which began with Valerie Singleton admitting her own liaison with Purves to The Mail on Sunday last year.

Purves’s new comment made it seem as though the squeaky-clean bastion of educational broadcasting was, in fact, a hotbed of sexual activity. Now Lesley ha

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My diary kept on 17th May 1973 continues…

What would you wear to go sailing on Coniston Water in May? Arriving at Wild Cat Island was exciting but I got terribly cold. Not with-standing this, a photograph of the scene was used on the cover of a 1973 edition of ‘Swallows and Amazons’.

The Passion Killer scenes ~

The crew took delight in referring to my navy blue gym knickers as ‘Passion Killers’. Claude Whatham, the director, had me tuck my dress up into them. I don’t know if he knew it but, as Arthur Ransome said, the real Altounyan girls had done this, since they usually wore dresses in the 1930s rather than shorts. It made me think that I was wearing even less and haunts me still. Soon there was a photograph in The Telegraph of me with my dress tucked up into my knickers. I was never allowed to un-tuck it between takes for fear of spoiling continuity.

Sailing in thin cotton dresses ~

Emma Porteus, the Costume Designe