Blue Peter 2002, repeats of "Blue Peter" started being shown on CBBC on Choice's successor, the newly launched CBBC Channel, along with spin-off shows "Blue Peter Unleashed" and "Blue Peter Flies the World". From 2003 a new arrangement involved new material being shown daily, on both BBC One and the CBBC Channel. In 2017, "Blue Peter Bite", a five-minute programme which features challenges previously shown on the programme was introduced. The signature tune has always been a hornpipe, originally using variations of Barnacle Bill by Herbert Ashworth-Hope, and should not be confused with the American sailor song of the same title. The
Barnacle Bill (song) I do, I shall want it When shall I have your pin again? When I can make it stand again, </poem> Barnacle Bill (song) "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" (Roud 4704) is an American drinking song adapted from "Bollocky Bill the Sailor", a traditional folk song originally titled "Abraham Brown". There are several versions of the bawdy song in the Gordon "Inferno" Collection at the Library of Congress folklife archive. The first printed version of the song is in the public domain book "Immortalia" (1927). Later versions feature the eponymous "Barnacle Bill", a fictional character loosely based on a 19th-century San