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How woke ruined Blue Peter: BBC made Britain's favourite children's TV show so relentlessly preachy it became unwatchable. No wonder it's been axed from screens, says CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Blue Peter was once the BBC 's flagship - the longest-running children's programme in the world, watched by eight million during its heyday every Monday and Thursday.
In recent years, after imposing an agenda of worthiness and virtue-signalling on the show, Broadcasting House executives watched audiences dwindle to less than 40,000 and stripped it back to one live episode a week. His colleagues Val Singleton and Peter Purves served ten and 11 years apiece, while in a later era Konnie Huq became the longest-serving female presenter, fronting the show for a decade in 1997. Cheap filler has become so desperately needed that the current line-up of presenters Abby Cook, Shini Muthukrishnan and Joel Mawhinney now read out letters from readers each week – a tactic that used to be confined to local radio.
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