Thread:Johnpeel3904/@comment-889116-20170815031612/@comment-4518276-20170823193820

Hi Folks

just been to the BBC Written Archives. Very time consuming it was, as the microfilms they had mixed Peel's shows with other Radio 1 DJ's programmes and were not in chronologically in order. I had thought there were separate microfilms for Peel, but I was wrong. The microfilms weren't brilliant quality to look at, but I did manage to take pics of most of them. The other problem was that microfilm machines that play the microfilms tend to be very flimsy and would often spit out the microfilm, just like a cassette ribbon being chewed and thrown out from a stereo hi-fi system. I think I probably spent half of the time trying to get the microfilm machines to work. However, I did manage to collect tracklistings of shows from each year between 1967 and 1983. The highlights include:

1) Peel's programme that had Lulu's only session

2) Peel's programme that played the first exclusive of The Fall

3) Peel's programme that played Billy Bragg for the first time when Peely was feeling hungry for a curry

4) Requests

Second visit hopefully will cover between 1984 and 1990. I'm not going to do 1991 and beyond (The BBC Written Archives have got it upto 1996), as they all seemed to be wikified.