Blue Peter


Here are my 30 appearances as the BBC Children's Blue Peter Astronomer between 1997 and 2003:

2003
Feb 21: The Quest - the One with the Alien
May 28: The Annular Eclipse of 31st May

2002
Jan 28: The New Fashion for Men (!)
Mar 6: The Isaac Newton Story - film
Mar 25: Mars and the Night Sky
Oct 23: The Gemini Telescope on Hawaii - film
Dec 2: Blue Peter Appeal Bring & Buy Sale
Dec 23: Blue Peter Panto - At the Club

2001
Jan 8: The Total Lunar Eclipse of January 9th
Feb 28: The Discovery of Uranus
Apr 4: Space Anniversaries
Jun 6: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
Sep 19: Jodrell Bank incl. Aliens & Star Trek
Nov 19: Blue Peter Appeal Bring & Buy Sale
Dec 12: The Geminids Meteor Shower
Dec 21: Blue Peter Panto - A 1950's Christmas

2000
17 Jan: The Total Lunar Eclipse of January 21st
28 Feb: Space Blunders
16 Oct: Science Fiction to Fact - Star Trek
30 Oct: The Telescopes of La Palma - film
15 Nov: The Night Sky
20 Dec: Ther Panto - An East End Christmas

1999
15 Feb: The Hubble Space Telescope
7 Jun: The Total Solar Eclipse of August 11th
29 Nov: Space Travel by Plane

1998
17 Feb: Astronomer Nicholas Copernicus
16 Mar: NASA's Lunar Prospector space probe
27 Apr: the Infrared Space Observatory
16 Nov: the Leonids Meteor Shower

1997
5 Nov: A Beginners Guide to the Night Sky

 

In Blue Peter Book 30 (2000 - 2001) I wrote a two-page 'Stargazing' feature which gave you an introduction to the night sky. It includes where to find some of the more interesting objects of the heavens.

Blue Peter Book 31 (2001 - 2002) has a two-page guide to my Blue Peter trip in 2000 to see the telescopes of La Palma in the Canaries.

Blue Peter Book 32 (2002 - 2003) has nothing to do with space at all, but you can see what I got up to in the Blue Peter rock and roll Christmas panto back in 2001, as well as an intriguing feature on Men in Skirts!

Blue Peter Book 33 (2003 - 2004) has me in my outfit for the 2002 Christamas show: Christmas at the Club.

 




The Blue Peter team on La Palma in 2000


Matt and I on the Enterprise in 2001


Is that Isaac Newton? in 2002