Which Blue Peter presenter praised a pair of door ornaments by saying what a beautiful pair of knockers
Blue Peter much-repeated items from this era include the Girl Guides' campfire that got out of hand on the 1970 Christmas edition, John Noakes's report on the cleaning of Nelson's Column, and Simon Groom referring to a previous item on the production of a facsimile door knocker for Durham Cathedral which was displayed alongside the original, with the words 'what a beautiful pair of knockers'. "Blue Peter" was first aired on 16 October 1958. It had been commissioned to producer John Hunter Blair by Owen Reed, the head of children's programmes at the BBC, as there were no programmes for children aged
A Pair of Blue Eyes "Under the Greenwood Tree" and "A Pair of Blue Eyes" are very remarkable novels, which no one could read without admiring the close and penetrating observation, and pictoral and narrative power of the writer.' Late in his life Hardy met composer Sir Edward Elgar and discussed the possibility of Elgar basing an opera on the novel. Hardy's death put an end to the project. BBC Radio 4 recorded the book as a serial, with Jeremy Irons as Harry Knight. Re-broadcast on Radio 4 Extra, 29–30 December 2014. "A Pair of Blue Eyes" is normally categorised as one of Hardy's minor