08 May 1968

== Show =
 * Name
 * Night Ride


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1968-05-08


 * Comments
 * Around 25 minutes of a Night Ride, featuring session material from Shirley and Dolly Collins, poems read live in the studio by Brian Patten, a couple of BBC "Archive Things", and Peel chatting with his guests. The only commercially available track is from an obscure import album by Phil Yost, on Takoma Records [], the label run by Peel favourite John Fahey.
 * There is a brief snippet of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien reading from his work. JP remarks that he would like to have Tolkien, then a cult figure among the hippies, as a regular guest on the programme.
 * Perhaps because the Liverpool poet Brian Patten is in the studio, JP explains how his own accent has developed, through public school, National Service and his years in the USA.

Sessions
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
 * Shirley and Dolly Collins
 * Brian Patten (poet)

Tracklisting

 * Shirley and Dolly Collins: Whitsun Dance (session)
 * Brian Patten: A Small Dragon (poem)
 * Massed Bamboo Stampers (music from BBC Archives)
 * Shirley and Dolly Collins: Lovely Joan (session)
 * Brian Patten: The Dream Exchange (poem)
 * Unknown artist: South Indian music played on the Gotuwadiam (a Peel favourite from the BBC Archives)
 * Professor J.R.R. Tolkien: A! Elbereth Gilthoniel (poem - a very short recording)
 * Shirley and Dolly Collins: God Dog (session - song written by Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band)
 * Brian Patten: The Projectionist's Dream (poem - orginally called The Projectionist's Nightmare, but title changed because Patten didn't want to give listeners nightmares at this late hour)
 * Shirley and Dolly Collins: A Blacksmith Courted Me
 * Phil Yost: Wave Your Moonlight Hat For The Snowfall Train (LP: Bent City) Takoma

File

 * The recording in circulation runs a little slower than the natural speed, exaggerating the mournful quality of Shirley Collins' voice and making Brian Patten sound as if he is slurring his words.
 * Length


 * Other
 * File created from T0-- of 400 Box.
 * File created from T0-- of 400 Box.


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