Arena: The Roundhouse - The People's Palace

Area: The Roundhouse - The People's Palace was a BBC Four documentary first broadcast in 2016, celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Roundhouse, a venue in north London, which hosted its first gig - the launch of radical newspaper International Times. The audience included Paul McCartney and Marianne Faithfull, along with 3,000 others trying desperately to get in. The result was a glorious shambles. Since then, virtually every big name in rock and alternative theatre has played there. Today it's as vibrant as ever, continuing to attract big names and full houses and running an array of outreach and youth programmes enabling young people to express themselves in the arts.

Links To Peel
A footage of Peel from 1992 makes an appearance in the programme where he described the Roundhouse as part of a community, where the sort of bands he liked, were playing there. It is not known where the footage of Peel from 1992 originally came from.