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

See Also

• Gigography 1997
• BFBS Calendar 1997
• BBC World Service Calendar 1997
• India Five-0

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 / 18 January 1997 / 19 January 1997 / 25 January 1997 / 26 January 1997
• 01 February 1997 / 02 February 1997 / 08 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 / 27 February 1997
• 04 March 1997 / 05 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 / 03 April 1997 / 08 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 / 04 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 / 09 December 1997 / 10 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
• Peel December 1996 January 1997 Lee Tape 321 / LE322: Peel January 1997 Lee Tape 322 / Peel January 1997 Lee Tape 323 / Peel January 1997 Lee Tape 324 / Peel January February 1997 Lee Tape 325 / Peel February 1997 Lee Tape 326 / Peel February 1997 Lee Tape 327 / Peel February 1997 Lee Tape 328 / Peel February 1997 Lee Tape 329 / Peel February 1997 Lee Tape 330 / Peel February March 1997 Lee Tape 331 / Peel February March 1997 Lee Tape 332 / Peel February March 1997 Lee Tape 333 / Peel March 1997 Lee Tape 334 / Peel March 1997 Lee Tape 335 / Peel March 1997 Lee Tape 336 / Peel March 1997 Lee Tape 337 / Peel March April 1997 Lee Tape 339 / Peel April 1997 Lee Tape 340 / Peel April 1997 Lee Tape 341 / Peel April 1997 Lee Tape 342 / Peel April 1997 Lee Tape 343 / Peel April 1997 Lee Tape 344 / Peel April 1997 Lee Tape 345 / Peel April 1997 Lee Tape 346 / Peel April May 1997 Lee Tape 347 / Peel May 1997 Lee Tape 348 / Peel May 1997 Lee Tape 349 / Peel May 1997 Lee Tape 350 / Peel May 1997 Lee Tape 351 / Peel May 1997 Lee Tape 352 / Peel May June 1997 Lee Tape 353 / Peel June 1997 Lee Tape 354 / Peel June 1997 Lee Tape 355 / Peel June 1997 Lee Tape 356 / Peel June July 1997 Lee Tape 357 / Peel June July 1997 Lee Tape 358 / Peel July 1997 Lee Tape 359 / Peel July 1997 Lee Tape 360 / Peel July 1997 Lee Tape 361 / Peel July 1997 Lee Tape 362 / Peel July 1997 Lee Tape 363 / Peel July August 1997 Lee Tape 364 / Peel July August 1997 Lee Tape 365 / Peel August 1997 Lee Tape 366 / Peel August September 1997 Lee Tape 369 / Peel August 1997 Lee Tape 370 / Peel August September 1997 Lee Tape 371 / Peel September 1997 Lee Tape 372 / Peel September 1997 Lee Tape 373 / Peel September 1997 Lee Tape 374 / Peel September October 1997 Lee Tape 375 / Peel October 1997 Lee Tape 376 / Peel October November 1997 Lee Tape 377 / Peel October 1997 Lee Tape 378 / Peel October November 1997 Lee Tape 379 / Peel November December 1997 Lee Tape 380 / Peel November December 1997 Lee Tape 381 / Peel December 1997 Lee Tape 383 / Peel December 1997 Lee Tape 384 / Peel December 1997 January 1998 Lee Tape 385

(*) 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) / 04 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) / 19 June 1997 (BFBS) / 26 June 1997 (BFBS)
• 03 July 1997 (BFBS) / 10 July 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)

Radio Eins

• 18 September 1997 (Radio Eins)

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