Initial problems connecting with Fabio in the next room.
Intermittent wheezing and coughing through the second half of the show – Peel claims the former makes him sound like the Rev CL Franklin. Says he doesn’t like not doing the show even if he isn’t feeling too good, as it feels like letting someone else using your toothbrush.
The Teenage Kicks TV documentary presented by Peel is on the following night. He says he started showing it at home, but the other viewers lost interest after “seven or eight seconds”.
Receives email telling him how a listener stole his taxi in Birmingham. Said listener apparently promised the taxi driver a mention on the show.