The second part of the 1988 Festive Fifty, following best of the year session repeats.
A mistake in the previous night's programme means that JP has to play the number 41 that wasn't played then.
The occurrence of a tragedy in the news leads to a paucity of links in the first part of the show.
JP (at beginning of show, following news bulletin featuring Lockerbie plane crash): "It seems almost obscene to follow a news bulletin like that with two hours of trivial nonsense..."
38: McCarthy: 'Should The Bible Be Banned (12 inch)' (September)
(JP: 'I was very very pleased to see this at number 37. Once again, I felt it should have been higher, but that's just me own personal view, and one of few sessions that got in.')
(JP: 'First Zambian band to make the Festive Fifty. Of course, whenever I say anything absolute like that, there's always somebody on the phone straight away saying, "No, you're wrong about that, in fact"'.)
(JP: 'While that was going on, I took a phone call from somebody saying would I stop playing that and play something by Cliff Richard? Well, so far, there's been none of Cliff's records in the Festive Fifty, but who can tell what is to come?')
A high quality version of the chart rundown from #40-#32 is available in the 'Festive 50s' folder of IAP's Tapes, but is mislabelled (it can be found in the sub-folder '1987' and file name F50_1987_4031).