Lesley Judd

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Lesley Judd (born 20 December 1946, London, UK) is an English dancer and TV presenter, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter. Brought in to the show when Valerie Singleton became a part-time presenter in 1972, she presented alongside Singleton, but mainly John Noakes and Peter Purves, a partnership that lasted until 1978 and remains the show's longest-running line-up. Before then, she had appeared as part of the dance troupe the Young Generation on several TV shows and also had a small role in the first Monty Python film, And Now For Something Completely Different, made in 1971 and Tommy Steele's Half A Sixpence. Judd made a brief return to dancing in 1976 when she joined Pan's People on Top Of The Pops for a one-off routine. The rehearsals were later shown on Blue Peter. During her time on the show she was criticised in the UK press when she divorced her first husband, actor Derek Fowlds (former 'straight' man to TV Puppet Basil Brush), and married a Blue Peter cameraman, who she also later divorced. It was her second husband's illness that caused her to leave Blue Peter in 1979.

After leaving Blue Peter, she appeared with another former partner of Basil Brush, Irishman Billy Boyle in an ITV series for children tracing the history of dance and was a regular panellist on game shows such as "Punchlines." She later featured as "The Mole" in the educational game show The Adventure Game, and was co-presenter of both the technology gameshow The Great Egg Race and the computer-related Micro Live. She also hosted the ever popular British radio show Woman's Hour from 1982 to 1988, and appeared as a television newsreader in the film Threads (1984). She also appeared naked in a print published charity poster in the early 80's which caused outrage at the time.

She now lives in France near Toulouse and works as a conference organiser. Although she has been asked, on several occasions, to take part in Blue Peter reunions, she has always turned them down, as she feels that appearing on television is no longer a part of her life; she was last seen on Blue Peter's 35th birthday programme.

Preceded by Valerie Singleton	Blue Peter Presenter No. 7 1972-79	Succeeded by Tina Heath

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Valerie Singleton OBE (born 9 April 1937) is an English television and radio presenter, best known as the longest-serving female presenter of the popular children's series, Blue Peter until her record was beaten by Konnie Huq in October 2007.
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John Noakes (born 6 March 1934, in Shelf, Halifax, Yorkshire, England) is a British actor, presenter and television personality, best known for co-presenting the BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Peter Purves (born February 10, 1939) is an English actor and television presenter.

Purves was born near Preston, Lancashire, England, went to Arnold School in Blackpool and originally planned to go into teaching, training at Alsager College of Education, but began acting
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And Now for Something Completely Different is a film spinoff from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons.
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Tommy Steele OBE (born December 17, 1936 in London, England) is an English entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first pop idol. Born Thomas Willam Hicks
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Half a Sixpence
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Music David Heneker
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Book Beverley Cross
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1967 Film Half a Sixpence
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Pan's People were a 1970s British TV dance troupe who are best associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops.

In an era before pop videos, they danced to songs whose original artist was not available to perform them live.
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Derek Fowlds

Derek Fowlds as Bernard in Yes, Prime Minister

Born 2 September 1937 (age 70)
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Basil Brush is an anthropomorphic fox raconteur most well known for his British television work. Brush is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet (see picture) but has also been depicted in animated cartoon shorts.
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The Adventure Game was a game show, aimed at children but with an adult following, which was originally broadcast on UK television channels BBC1 and BBC2 between 1980 and 1986.
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The Great Egg Race was a BBC television series that ran from 1978 to 1986 and featured Professor Heinz Wolff and Lesley Judd.

In a similar vein to the later Channel 4 series Scrapheap Challenge, the show featured teams creating Heath Robinson
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Micro Live was a BBC2 TV series that was produced by David Allen as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, and followed on from earlier series such as The Computer Programme, Computers In Control, and Making the Most of the Micro.
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Woman's Hour is a magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.

Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by Alan Ivimey the programme was first broadcast on 7 October 1946 on the BBC's Light Programme (now called Radio 2).
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Threads is a 1984 BBC television docudrama depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath.
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