Peel On Radio

Related article: Peel On TV

A preliminary attempt to list radio programmes featuring Peel. Please feel free to add any missing shows.

Presenter

 * John Peel (three-hour shows in various time-slots between 6 a.m. and midnight] (Radio London, 1967)
 * London After Midnight (12.00 - 2 a.m, Saturdays 11 p.m - 2 a.m) (Radio London, 1967)
 * Perfumed Garden (Radio London, 1967).
 * Top Gear (BBC Radio 1, 1967-1975: sole presenter from 1968).
 * The Voice Of Pop (BBC Radio 1, 1968)
 * Night Ride (BBC Radio 1, 1968-9).
 * In Concert (BBC Radio 1, 1970-2).
 * Stenhousemuir 2: Cowdenbeath 2 (Radio Luxembourg, 1971-2).
 * Friday Night Is Boogie Night (BBC Radio 1, 1972).
 * John Peel's Music On BFBS (Forces Radio, 1972-2001).
 * Sounds On Sunday (BBC Radio 1, 1973-5).
 * Rock Week (BBC Radio 1, 1975).
 * John Peel Show (BBC Radio 1, 1975-2004).
 * Lifelines (BBC Radio 3, 1976-1977).
 * John Peel On The BBC World Service (1978-2004).
 * Virgin In-Store (1979-80).
 * Rock On Saturday (BBC Radio 1, 1980).
 * John Peel's Rock Requests (BBC Radio 1, 1980).
 * Stayin' Alive (BBC Radio 1, 1980).
 * Peel's Pleasures (BBC Radio 1, 1981-2).
 * Talkabout (BBC Radio 1, 1982-3).
 * Heroes And Villains (BBC Radio 1, 1982).
 * John Peel Show (VPRO, Netherlands, 1984-1986).
 * Caribbean Celebration (BBC Radio 1, 1986).
 * Only At Christmas (BBC Radio 1, 1987).
 * Nachtexpress (O3, Austria, 1989-1994).
 * Peel Out In The States (syndicated, 1993).
 * Offspring (BBC Radio 4, 1995-7).
 * Home Truths (BBC Radio 4, 1998-2004).
 * Peel (Radio Eins, Germany, 1999-2003).

Guest Presenter

 * Radio One Club (1968- ?) Made his first appearance in November 1968; described the experience ("hell for my ego") in his column in the 29 November 1968 issue of International Times.
 * University Radio York (1969). Relaunch show with Peel as guest presenter for one show only. He opened it by playing Pink Floyd's Let There Be More Light (from A Saucerful Of Secrets).
 * Inquiry (BBC Radio 4, 1969). Peel presented a number of episodes of this BBC Radio 4 Schools series. He is pictured visiting a school in Harrow on the BBC website.
 * Paul Gambaccini US Chart Show  (BBC Radio 1, 1977).
 * Annie Nightingale's Request Show (BBC Radio 1, 1986).
 * Andy Kershaw (BBC Radio 1, 1987).
 * John Peel Is Jakki Brambles (BBC Radio 1, 1993).
 * Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 1, 1996).
 * Radio One Chart Show (BBC Radio 1, 2003) Peel was originally planned to host the chart rundown as a guest presenter for a one-off in January 2003, but the BBC changed their minds at the last moment, as they didn't want too many radio DJ's hosting the programme before the relaunch.

Subject

 * Serendipity (BBC Radio 4, 1977)


 * Meet John Peel (BBC World Service, 1981).
 * My Top Ten (BBC Radio 1, 1984).
 * Radio Radio (BBC Radio 1, 1986).
 * Peeling Back The Years (BBC Radio 1, 1987).
 * Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4, 1990).
 * Partners In Dispute (BFBS, 1992)
 * Chain Reaction (BBC Radio 5, 1992).
 * Big Holy One (BBC Radio 1, Simon Mayo, 1993).
 * Personal Records (BBC Radio 4, 1993).
 * God Of The Week (BBC Radio 1, Simon Mayo, 1996).
 * Private Passions (BBC Radio 3, 1996).
 * Write On (BBC World Service, 2003).

Interviewer

 * You'll Never Walk Alone (BBC Radio 1, 1983).
 * Down Your Way (BBC Radio 4, 1988).
 * Chain Reaction (BBC Radio 5, 1992).

Participant

 * Questions Of Belief (BBC Radio 4, 1972).
 * Radio Five (BBC Radio 1, 1974).
 * Study On 3 (BBC Radio 3, 1974-1975).


 * Radio 1 Round Table (BBC Radio 1, 1970s-1980s).
 * Law Game (BBC Radio 2, 1982).
 * Quote...Unquote (BBC Radio 4, 1986).
 * The Archers (BBC Radio 4, 1991).
 * Pink Pop (BBC Radio 1, 1993).
 * Fourth Column (BBC Radio 4, 1994).
 * The Music Machine (BBC Radio 3, 1994).
 * Where Were You In .. 1977? (BBC Radio 5 Live, 1992).
 * A Good Read (BBC Radio 4, 2001).
 * Breaking the Barricades? The Story of Ulster Rock (BBC Radio 2, 2004).

Contributor

 * The Pink Floyd Story (Capital Radio, 1976)
 * Radio Active (BBC Radio 4, 1987).
 * Come Rain Or Come Shine (BBC Radio 1, 1987).
 * 21 Years Of Radio 1 (BBC Radio 1, 1988).
 * How To Survive Your Parents (BBC Radio 1, 1990).
 * Look Out, It's Alive! (BBC Radio 1, 1991).
 * Def Leppard (BBC Radio 1, 1993).
 * From Loon Pants To Safety Pins (BBC Radio 4, 1993).
 * At The Beeb (BBC Radio 1, 1993)
 * Jonathan King At 50 (BBC Radio 2, 1994).
 * The Story Of Pop (BBC Radio 1, 1994).
 * Kaleidoscope (BBC Radio 4, 1995).
 * Kickin (BBC Radio 1, 1996).
 * The Sixties At The Beeb (BBC Radio 2, 1996).
 * Pepper Forever! (BBC Radio 2, 1997).
 * The Great Outdoors (BBC Radio 2, 1997).
 * The Story Of Pop Radio (BBC Radio 2, 1997; revised from a 1982 Radio 1 series).
 * The Summer Of Love (BBC Radio 2, 1997).
 * Falling Through Time (Resonance 107.3 FM, 1998).
 * Tonight I'm Yours - The Rod Stewart Story (BBC Radio 2, 2003).
 * Breaking The Barricades?The Story of Ulster Rock (BBC Radio 2, 2004).

Narrator

 * The Pop Scene (BBC Radio 3, 1970).
 * La Musique Hot (BBC Radio 3, 1973).


 * Insight (BBC Radio 1, 1975).
 * Where It's At (BBC Radio 3, 1976).
 * It Makes Me Laugh (BBC Radio 4, 1980).
 * All The Lonely People ... (BBC Radio 1, 1982).
 * You'll Never Be Sixteen Again (BBC Radio 4, 1985: repeated on Radio 1 in 1986 & 1987).
 * Janice And John In Japan (BBC Radio 1, 1986).
 * Peel At The World Popular Song Festival In Japan (BBC Radio 1, 1986).
 * John Peel At Eurovision (BBC Radio 1, 1987).
 * Rebel Yell (BBC Radio 1, 1987).
 * What's Love Got To Do With It? (BBC Radio 1, 1988).
 * John Peel In Russia (BBC Radio 1, 1988).
 * Promised Land (BBC Radio 1, 1988).
 * John Peel Remembers 1967 (BBC Radio 1, 1988).
 * Douze Points - John Peel At The Eurovision Song Contest (BBC Radio 1, 1989).
 * Peel At The Brits  (BBC Radio 1, 1990).
 * Staying Single (BBC Radio 1, 1992).
 * Hell For Leather (BBC Radio 1, 1993).
 * John Peel In Scandinavia (BBC Radio 1, 1993).
 * How Does It Feel - The New Order Story (BBC Radio 1, 1993: repeated 2008).
 * Trouble At The Copper Kettle (BBC Radio 4, 1994).
 * Lost In Music (BBC Radio 1, 1994).
 * Beam Me Up, Scotty (BBC Radio 4, 1996).
 * Punk Fiction (BBC Radio 1, 1996).
 * John Peel's Classic Sessions (BBC Radio 1, 1996).
 * The Doo-Wop Hall of Fame (BBC Radio 2, 1997)
 * Fab And Fifty (BBC Radio 2, 1997).
 * Surf's Up! (BBC Radio 2, 1997).
 * Vinyl Resting Place (BBC Radio 2, 1997).
 * Roy Orbison: The Big O (BBC Radio 2, 1998).
 * Going For A Song (BBC Radio 2, 1998).
 * The Dansette Story (BBC Radio 2, 1998).
 * Big O (BBC Radio 2, 1998).
 * Race With The Devil: The Gene Vincent Story (BBC Radio 2, 1998).
 * Jerry Wexler : Soul Man (BBC Radio 2, 1999: repeated on 6Music 2010, 2011).
 * As I Roved Out: A Century Of Folk Music (BBC Radio 2, 1999).
 * Pete Atkin and Clive James: Smash Flops (BBC Radio 2, 2000).
 * The True Story Of British Pop (BBC Radio 2, 2001).
 * The Kids Are All High (BBC Radio 1, 2001).
 * The Man In The Velvet Suit (BBC Radio 4, 2002: repeated 2004).

Posthumous Appearances

 * Suzi Quatro's Pioneers Of Rock (BBC Radio 2, 2005).
 * Soup Songs - The Robert Wyatt Story (BBC Radio 2, 2005).


 * John Peel Around The World (BBC Radio 1, 2005).


 * Purely Peel (BBC Radio 7, 2005: repeated 2009).
 * John Peel's Scottish Sessions (BBC Radio Scotland, 2009)
 * John Peel's First Podcast (BBC 6Music, 2011).
 * Sounds Of The 20th Century (BBC Radio 2, 2011).


 * Footnotes