1997

Peelenium

 * Broadcast
 * 13 January 2000

Playlist


 * Inter: Happy Ending
 * Clinic: IPC Subeditors Dictate Our Youth
 * Helen Love: Does Your Heart Go Boom
 * The Delgados: Pull The Wires From The Wall

Main Events
 * Fashion designer Gianni Versace shot to death by spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
 * Comet Hale-Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
 * The English Patient wins Best Picture at the Oscars.
 * The Labour Party under Tony Blair wins the UK General Election by a landslide, ending 18 years of Conservative Government.
 * Publication of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel.
 * Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule after 100 years of UK sovereignty.
 * NASA's Pathfinder probe lands on the surface of Mars.
 * Death of Diana Princess Of Wales in a car accident.
 * UK Home Secretary Michael Howard states that Moors Murderer Myra Hindley will serve a full life tariff in prison. She appeals, but loses.
 * In music, deaths of Billy Mackenzie, The Notorious BIG, Laura Nyro, Jimmy Witherspoon, Michael Hutchence and Stephane Grappelli.

Festive 31
1997 Festive Fifty
 * 23 December 1997

Other notable shows

 * 30th anniversary special
 * 01 October 1997


 * Blur at Peel Acres
 * 05 May 1997


 * Newcastle Sound City, with Steve Lamacq
 * 27 October 1997
 * 28 October 1997
 * 29 October 1997
 * 30 October 1997

Links

 * (BBC) Peel Biography: 1990-1997 - From The Archers To Nirvana
 * Frequency Finder: Radio 1 Schedules 1994-97
 * Wikipedia: 1997
 * Wikipedia: 1997 In Music
 * List Of Shows

Shows calendar

 * Shows move to midweek (Tue, Wed, Thur, 8.30-10.30pm) from 18 February 1997. Start time changes to 8.40pm from 08 April 1997.
 * No shows 12 March (extended Evening Session from Exeter University), 5 June, 23 Sept (U2 live in Sarajevo), 04 Dec ("Evening Session Priority Night", four hours of live music), 11 Dec (Blur live at the Brixton Academy), after 23 December 1997.

Shared

 * 04 January 1997 / 05 January 1997 / 06 January 1997 / 11 January 1997 / 12 January 1997 / 25 January 1997 / 26 January 1997
 * 01 February 1997 / 02 February 1997 / 09 February 1997 / 15 February 1997 / 16 February 1997 / 18 February 1997 / 19 February 1997 / 20 February 1997 / 25 February 1997 / 26 February 1997
 * 04 March 1997 / 06 March 1997 / 11 March 1997 / 13 March 1997 / 18 March 1997 / 19 March 1997 / 20 March 1997 /  25 March 1997 / 26 March 1997 / 27 March 1997
 * 01 April 1997 / 02 April 1997 / 09 April 1997 / 10 April 1997* / 15 April 1997 / 16 April 1997 / 17 April 1997* / 22 April 1997 / 23 April 1997 / 24 April 1997 / 27 April 1997 / 28 April 1997 / 29 April 1997 / 30 April 1997
 * 05 May 1997 / 06 May 1997 / 07 May 1997 / 08 May 1997 / 13 May 1997 / 14 May 1997 / 15 May 1997 / 20 May 1997 / 21 May 1997 / 22 May 1997 / 27 May 1997 / 28 May 1997 / 29 May 1997
 * 03 June 1997 / 10 June 1997 / 11 June 1997 / 12 June 1997 / 17 June 1997 / 18 June 1997 / 19 June 1997 / 24 June 1997 / 25 June 1997 / 26 June 1997 / 28 June 1997
 * 01 July 1997 / 02 July 1997 / 03 July 1997 / 08 July 1997 / 09 July 1997 / 10 July 1997 / 15 July 1997 / 16 July 1997 / 17 July 1997 / 22 July 1997 / 23 July 1997 / 24 July 1997 / 29 July 1997 / 30 July 1997* / 31 July 1997*
 * 05 August 1997 / 06 August 1997 / 07 August 1997 / 12 August 1997 / 13 August 1997 / 14 August 1997 / 20 August 1997 / 21 August 1997* / 26 August 1997 / 27 August 1997 / 28 August 1997
 * 02 September 1997 / 03 September 1997 / 04 September 1997 / 09 September 1997 / 10 September 1997 / 11 September 1997 / 16 September 1997 / 17 September 1997 / 18 September 1997 / 24 September 1997 / 25 September 1997 / 30 September 1997
 * 01 October 1997 / 02 October 1997 / 07 October 1997 / 08 October 1997 / 09 October 1997 / 14 October 1997 / 15 October 1997 / 16 October 1997 / 21 October 1997 / 22 October 1997 / 23 October 1997 / 30 October 1997
 * 04 November 1997 / 05 November 1997 / 06 November 1997 / 11 November 1997 / 12 November 1997 / 13 November 1997 / 18 November 1997 / 19 November 1997 / 20 November 1997 / 25 November 1997
 * 02 December 1997 / 03 December 1997 / 16 December 1997 / 17 December 1997 / 18 December 1997 / 23 December 1997
 * Peel Spring 1997 / Peel Mid to Late 1997
 * Jan Feb 1997 Tape 27A / Early 1997 Tape 27B
 * Peel's Esoterica

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

BBC World Service

 * 04 January 1997 (BBC World Service) / 11 January 1997 (BBC World Service) / 18 January 1997 (BBC World Service) / 25 January 1997 (BBC World Service) / February 1997 (BBC World Service) / 08 February 1997 (BBC World Service) / 15 February 1997 (BBC World Service) / 10 March 1997 (BBC World Service) / 17 March 1997 (BBC World Service) / 10 July 1997 (BBC World Service) / 17 July 1997 (BBC World Service) / 24 July 1997 (BBC World Service) / 15 August 1997 (BBC World Service) / 04 September 1997 (BBC World Service) / 11 September 1997 (BBC World Service) / 17 October 1997 (BBC World Service) / 31 October 1997 (BBC World Service) / November 1997 (BBC World Service)

BFBS

 * 17 March 1997 (BFBS)
 * 10 April 1997 (BFBS) / 24 April 1997 (BFBS)
 * 01 May 1997 (BFBS) / 08 May 1997 (BFBS) / 16 May 1997 (BFBS) / 22 May 1997 (BFBS) / 23 May 1997 (BFBS) / 29 May 1997 (BFBS)
 * 05 June 1997 (BFBS) / 12 June 1997 (BFBS)
 * 07 August 1997 (BFBS) / 14 August 1997 (BFBS)
 * 11 September 1997 (BFBS) / 18 September 1997 (BFBS) / 25 September 1997 (BFBS)
 * 09 October 1997 (BFBS) / 23 October 1997 (BFBS)
 * 27 November 1997 (BFBS) / 04 December 1997 (BFBS) / 11 December 1997 (BFBS) / 18 December 1997 (BFBS)

FSK

 * January 1997 (FSK)
 * February 1997 (FSK)
 * March 1997 (FSK)
 * December 1997 (FSK)

Tracklistings

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