Biddy Baxter

Biddy Baxter
Born
Joan Maureen Baxter

(1933-05-25) 25 May 1933 (age 91)
Leicester, England
NationalityBritish
EducationWyggeston Girls' Grammar School
Alma materSt Mary's College, Durham
OccupationTelevision producer
Known forEditing Blue Peter for 23 years
Spouse
(died 2000)

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.