Planet Peel

It wasn't all wonderful BBC Radio One or even only UK radio. This page is an attempt to track our man's shows around the globe. Below is a first attempt at a preliminary listing of some of the material available online.

Finnish Radio

 * John Peel Shows From Finnish Radio Pt. 1
 * John Peel Shows From Finnish Radio Pt. 2
 * John Peel Shows From Finnish Radio Pt. 3
 * John Peel Shows From Finnish Radio Pt. 4

Initially made available via three dedicated torrents. Nowadays, appear to be most commonly available via John Peel Torrent Compilation 16 of 17 (2004 & Shows from Finnish Radio). A fourth torrent was also available, but it does not appear on the above compilation.

A selection of Radio Mafia Peel tracklistings from 2002 are available at the station's homepage from the pulldown menu marked "Biisilista-arkisto".

Ô3 (Austria)
Peel presented a monthly series of programmes called 'Nachtexpress': recordings of several of these have recently come to light. According to the original taper, these shows went out between 12 and 1 a.m. every first Monday of the month.


 * 04 March 1991 (Ô3)
 * 03 June 1991 (Ô3)
 * 07 October 1991 (Ô3)
 * 02 December 1991 (Ô3)
 * 03 February 1992 (Ô3)
 * 02 March 1992 (Ô3)

Peel Out In The States
Twenty-four shows taped at Peel Acres for distribution to US stations in 1993 via 12 promo CDs. Dedicated torrent exists from usual sources featuring all 24 shows, except 21 & 22, although 24 is incomplete.

Radio Eins
Several shows available via John Peel Torrent Compilation 17 of 17 (Various).

Full online tracklistings of shows from 1999 to 2003 available here.

BFBS
John Peel Torrent Compilation 8 of 17 (1967-1993)

John Peel Torrent Compilation 9 of 17 (1994-2001)

VPRO
Dutch station. Homepage mentions a three-hour streamed tribute, including mid-eighties show during first hour, following introduction in Dutch. Links for this appear to be broken at the time of writing. This included this incomplete version of 29 January 1986 (VPRO).

BBC World Service

 * Peel broadcast a half-hour weekly show for many years, but little of this appears to be available at present. See Peel's World Service Comp, October 1983 (BBC World Service), 01 July 1991 (BBC World Service), 24 June 1991 (BBC World Service) and 29 November 2003 (BBC World Service) for rare examples.
 * There is also a World Service tribute edition of Music Biz from 20 October 2005 (thanks to Peel Mailing List user dunelm61).
 * On http://www.youtube.com/krasteff you can hear excerpts from J. Peel's BBC World Service programmes from 80's and 90's, recorded from shortwave. Usually the quality is not good and often there are cuts.