Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valerie Singleton OBE (born 9 April 1937) is an English television and radio presenter, best known as a presenter of the popular children''s series, Blue Peter. She was educated at the independent The Arts Educational School, in Tring, Hertfordshire, to which the school had relocated from London at the outbreak of the Second World War.Singleton wanted to be a dancer and for two years attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She won a scholarship for her first term and began her career as an actress at the New Theatre in Bromley. In 1959, she starred in the sitcom The Adventures of Brigadier Wellington-Bull.