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Blue Peter presenter and film-maker Max Stahl dies aged 66

Stahl later became an award-winning journalist after exposing a massacre in Timor-Leste

Max Stahl, a former Blue Peter presenter who became an award-winning film-maker after exposing a massacre in Timor-Leste, formerly East Timor, has died aged 66.

Known as Christopher Wenner during his stint presenting the BBC children’s TV show from 1978 to 1980, he changed his name in the early 1990s.

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