BBC World Service

The most widely available English-language radio service: in operation since 1932. Peel made many programmes for the service, of which little recorded material exists. It enabled listeners in places as far apart as Israel and Nepal to hear his choice of music and droll humour.

John Peel's BBC World Service Radio programme was broadcast weekly on shortwave (repeated twice).

As the show was 28 - 30 min., Peel only had time to play 7 or 8 tracks.

Unlike the Radio 1 show, the World Service Show was usually introduced by a speaker, using the term "British rock scene" to describe Peel's selection of music, as in a October 1983 show.

Also not very well-known is the fact that Peel never played recordings from his "Peel Sessions" on BBC W. Service before 1987, i.e. before the Strange Fruit releases. An exception may be the Sept. 1985 Flexi by The Nightingales.

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