Thread:Johnpeel3904/@comment-1514297-20171020225837/@comment-4518276-20171020231428

When I applied to go there, I mentioned to them I was writing a book about Peel's playlists and then they wanted me to know who was my publisher. I named the publisher that released the John Peel book Good Night and Good Riddance. They immediately believed me without checking it and gave me a date when I could go there. The date was 3 months away from the day I applied. I originally was planning to go once in August, but their mistake in not clarifying the dates properly, led them to compensate me with two visits within one week. Usually researchers only get to visit once and then if they want to visit again, they have to wait for considerable amount of time to visit the 2nd time. I was extremely lucky to visit twice in such a short time.

I'm very unlikely to visit again, as I don't live anywhere near Caversham and I was lucky that I had holidays during that time to visit twice. It is a great place to go and see the tracklistings, although the microfilms are a pain in the ass to get used to. If I had the same opportunities of visiting Cavendish as much as the British Library, every Radio 1 Peel show playlist between 1967 and 1996 would have been completed on the Peel wikia site.