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
The Wonderful Tune using the manuscript copy, and printed in "Irische Land- und Seemärchen" (1986). The protagonist appears as "Moritz Connor". A French translation entitled "L'air merveilleux" appeared in Loys Bruyere, "Contes populaires de la Grande-Bretagne" (1875). The Wonderful Tune The Wonderful Tune is an Irish fairy tale collected in Thomas Crofton Croker's "Fairy Tales and Traditions of the South of Ireland" (1825–28). Andrew Lang included it in "The Lilac Fairy Book", and Ruth Manning-Sanders included it as "The Magical Tune", in "A Book of Mermaids". Maurice Connor, a blind man, was the finest piper in Munster, and knew a tune that when