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Blue Peter (other)
The Blue Peter was originally a blue maritime signal flag meaning "P" or "outward bound", flown to warn a ship's crew in port of an imminent sailing. Blue Peter also may refer to: *''Blue Peter'', a British television programme. * Blu Peter, Peter Harris (producer) (born 1961) in music * Music: ** Blue Peter (instrumental), 1979 release of the ''Blue Peter'' theme tune ** Blue Peter (band), Canadian * Film: ** ''The Blue Peter'' (1928 film) ** ''The Blue Peter'' (1955 film) * Horses: ** Blue Peter (British horse) (born 1936) ** Blue Peter (American horse) (born 1946) * Blue Peter Book Award * ''The Blue Peter'' (magazine), a British sea travel monthly, with artwork by Jack Spurling John Robert Charles Spurling (1870 – 1933) was an English painter noted for nautical themes, particularly sailing ships of the 19th and 20th centuries. History Spurling was born on 12 December 1870. He was the son of an importer and grew up ne ... * Locomotive LNER Peppercorn Class A2 60 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Maritime Signal Flags
International maritime signal flags are various flags used to communicate with ships. The principal system of flags and associated codes is the International Code of Signals. Various navies have flag systems with additional flags and codes, and other flags are used in special uses, or have historical significance. Usage There are various methods by which the flags can be used as signals: * A series of flags can spell out a message, each flag representing a letter. * Individual flags have specific and standard meanings;AB Nordbok. "The Lore of Ships", page 138. New York: Crescent Books, 1975. for example, diving support vessels raise the "A" flag indicating their inability to move from their current location because they have a diver underwater and to warn other vessels to keep clear to avoid endangering the diver(s) with their propellers. * One or more flags form a code word whose meaning can be looked up in a code book held by both parties. An example is the Popham numeric co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Peter
''Blue Peter'' is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair. It is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It was broadcast primarily from BBC Television Centre in London until September 2011, when the programme moved to dock10 studios at MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester. It is currently shown live on the CBBC television channel on Fridays at 5pm. The show is also repeated on Saturdays at 11:30am, Sundays at 9:00am and a BSL version is shown on Tuesdays at 2:00pm. Following its original creation, the programme was developed by a BBC team led by Biddy Baxter; she became the programme editor in 1965, relinquishing the role in 1988. Throughout the show's history there have been 41 presenters; currently, it is hosted by Richie Driss, Mwaksy Mudenda and Joel Mawhinney. The show uses a nautical title and theme. Its content, which follows a magazine/entertainment format, featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harris (producer)
Peter Harris (born 1961), popularly known as Blu Peter, is a British electronic dance music producer and disc jockey from South Wales, who pioneered the nu-NRG music genre in the late 1990s. In the early 1990s, he served as resident DJ at major London nightclubs Heaven and Turnmills. He has performed at raves and nightclubs around the world. After establishing his DJ career, Harris began producing original music as Blu Peter. He released dozens of 12-inch singles, CD singles, and remix A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...es, many through React Music Limited of London. In 1999, he released his first full-length studio album, ''Widescreen & Digital''. Harris also partnered with Kevin White to form a production duo called Elevator; together they co-produced nume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Peter (instrumental)
"Blue Peter" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1979 on the Virgin label. It is a rendition of the theme tune for the British children's television show ''Blue Peter'' and was used by the show between 1979 and 1989. It is a new version of the original theme tune "Barnacle Bill", written by Herbert Ashworth-Hope. ''Blue Peter'' The royalties from the single went to the Cambodia appeal launched by the children's show. It charted at number 19 in the UK Singles Chart. Mike Oldfield's version of the ''Blue Peter'' theme was the first time the arrangement had changed since the programme began in 1958, and it had its genesis in his appearance on the programme in 1979 to demonstrate how modern pop music was created using multi-track recording techniques. The result was liked enough by both the viewers and programme producers to be retained as the permanent theme, and Oldfield additionally recorded a new version of the programme's closing music, which runs for just 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Peter (band)
Blue Peter was a Canadian new wave synthpop band founded in 1978 in Markham, Ontario, by Chris Wardman and Paul Humphrey. In their heyday, Blue Peter opened for major international acts such as the Police and Simple Minds. The video for "Don't Walk Past", directed by Rob Quartly, was No. 85 on MuchMusic's top videos of the century list, and was played on MTV in the United States, in spite of the lack of American record distribution for the band. Humphrey died on April 4, 2021, after a long illness. History Blue Peter was founded by guitarist/songwriter Chris Wardman and lead singer Paul Humphrey in the late 1970s, as a high school band. The initial lineup was rounded out by bassist Geoff McOuat and drummer Ron Tomlinson; this ensemble recorded Blue Peter's first EP, ''Test Patterns for Living'', in 1979. In 1980, Mike Bambrick replaced Tomlinson on drums, and in the same year, the band released their first full-length album, ''Radio Silence''. Over the next couple of yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Peter (1928 Film)
''The Blue Peter'' is a 1928 British silent adventure film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Matheson Lang, Gladys Frazin, and Mary Dibley. The film was based on the 1925 play '' The Blue Peter'' by E. Temple Thurston Ernest Charles Temple Thurston (23 September 1879 – 19 March 1933) was a British poet, playwright and author. Biography Thurston was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, the youngest of four children of brewery manager Frank Joseph Thurston a .... Premise After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama. Cast * Matheson Lang as David Hunter * Gladys Frazin as Rosa Callaghan * Mary Dibley as Emma * Cameron Carr as Edward Formby * A. Bromley Davenport as Mr. Callaghan * Esmond Knight as Radio operator References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * 1928 films 1928 adventure f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Peter (1955 Film)
''The Blue Peter'' is a 1955 (copyright 1954) British film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Kieron Moore and Greta Gynt. The film was retitled ''Navy Heroes'' and released in the United States in December 1957. The film is about youth seamanship at the original Outward Bound in Aberdyfi, Wales, a program similar to Sea Scouting or Sea Cadets. Premise Shellshocked following his experiences as a POW, naval war hero Mike Merriworth (Kieron Moore) enrols as a physical instructor at an Outward Bound sea school in Wales, and discovers new purpose shaping the lives of the boys in his charge. Cast * Kieron Moore as Mike Merriworth * Greta Gynt as Mary Griffin * Sarah Lawson as Gwyneth Thomas * Mervyn Johns as Captain Snow * Mary Kerridge as Mrs Snow * Harry Fowler as Charlie Barton * John Charlesworth as Andrew Griffin * Anthony Newley as Fred Starling * Brian Roper as Tony Mullins * Edwin Richfield as Number One * Richard Bennett as Roger * William Ingram as Karl Production It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Peter (British Horse)
Blue Peter (1936–1957) was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse whose career was cut short by the outbreak of World War II. He won The Derby and was later a Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland. Bred and owned by Lord Rosebery, his sire was the good racehorse, Fairway and his dam Fancy Free was by Stefan the Great, a son of The Tetrarch. Blue Peter was buried in the Mentmore estate. Racing record At age two, Blue Peter raced twice without winning. He was unplaced in one outing and second in the Middle Park Stakes behind the top-rated British two-year-old, Foxbrough. In 1939, three-year-old Blue Peter went undefeated in all four of his races. He captured the Blue Riband Trial Stakes, a prep race for the ensuing Triple Crown series. In May, the colt won the 2,000 Guineas and then June's Epsom Derby, defeating Heliopolis by four lengths.de Bourg, Ross, “The Australian and New Zealand Thoroughbred”, Nelson, West Melbourne, 1980, While Blue Peter was clearl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Peter (American Horse)
Blue Peter (1946–1950) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Background Bred and raced by Joseph M. Roebling, great-grandson of John A. Roebling, who built the Brooklyn Bridge, Blue Peter was out of the mare Carillon, a granddaughter of Teddy. He was sired by 1937 U.S. Triple Crown champion War Admiral, a son of Man o' War, who was ranked No. 1 in the Blood-Horse magazine list of the top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century. He was trained by former jockey Andy Schuttinger. Racing career Blue Peter was sent to the track in 1948 at age two. That year, he compiled a record of eight wins and two thirds from ten starts, with several of his wins coming in the premier events against the best horses in his age group such as the Belmont Futurity Stakes, and the Hopeful Stakes The Hopeful Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Open to two-year-old horses, the Hopeful is the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Peter Book Award
The Blue Peter Book Awards were a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme '' Blue Peter''. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006. As of 2013, there are two award categories: Best Story and Best Book with Facts. The awards were discontinued in 2022, one month after the end of the Costa Book Awards, which included a category for children's book, leaving only two widely recognized awards for children's literature (the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize). Categories The Book of the Year dated from 2000 when there were also some "Voters' Awards" (2000 to 2002). Previously there were award categories for: * Most Fun Story with Pictures, from 2007 * Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud, 2004 to 2006 * Best Book with Facts, from 2003 * Best New Information Book, 2002 * Favourite Story, 2011 * Book I Couldn't Put Down, 2000 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Peter (magazine)
The Blue Peter was originally a blue maritime signal flag meaning "P" or "outward bound", flown to warn a ship's crew in port of an imminent sailing. Blue Peter also may refer to: *''Blue Peter'', a British television programme. * Blu Peter, Peter Harris (producer) (born 1961) in music * Music: ** Blue Peter (instrumental), 1979 release of the ''Blue Peter'' theme tune ** Blue Peter (band), Canadian * Film: ** ''The Blue Peter'' (1928 film) ** ''The Blue Peter'' (1955 film) * Horses: ** Blue Peter (British horse) (born 1936) ** Blue Peter (American horse) (born 1946) * Blue Peter Book Award * ''The Blue Peter'' (magazine), a British sea travel monthly, with artwork by Jack Spurling * Locomotive LNER Peppercorn Class A2 60532 Blue Peter * The letter P, International Code of Signals The International Code of Signals (ICS) is an international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages regarding safety of navigation and related matters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Spurling
John Robert Charles Spurling (1870 – 1933) was an English painter noted for nautical themes, particularly sailing ships of the 19th and 20th centuries. History Spurling was born on 12 December 1870. He was the son of an importer and grew up near the London docks, where he learned to sketch as a pastime. At the age of 16 he first went to sea as an apprentice aboard ''Astoria''. His life nearly ended when he fell from the main upper topsail yard to the deck, he instead spent six months in a Singapore hospital. He gained his second mate's certificate after some years aboard one of Devitt & Moore's sail training vessels, and around the same time learned the art of watercolor painting, and was soon receiving commissions from other seafarers. He finished his life at sea as a sailor with the Blue Anchor line of steamers. Spurling's second love was the stage, and promising career as an actor but success as a painter intruded: In 1921 he met Frederick Arthur Hook (died 1935), editor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
