Start of the show: "Got a mass of good stuff for you in tonight's programme, you'll be very pleased to hear. Got a repeat of a recent session by the Damned and the new session from the Transmitters. Also in the course of the programme I shall tell you how you can win a Public Image Ltd tin album and perhaps even more important than this, how you could be a Banshee. There's something for you to look forward to. Got a wealth of records by such folk as Linval Thompson, 23 Jewels, Kid Thomas, Secret Affair, Stepping Talk, Augustus Pablo, Cure, Raincoats, Fall, Specials, Matumbi, the Undertones - and to start the programme, the Cockney Rejects. Alright lads?"
Siouxsie & The Banshees are still looking for a new lead guitarist (see 11 September 1979 for news of their personnel problems). At their management's behest, interested parties are invited to send their applications in to Peel, who will forward them on.
About 40 minutes in John spills a can of coke into the desk and he apologises for the resultant frying sounds during the Matumbu record. Probably coincidentally, frying sound effects continue for the rest of the programme and then the Radio 2 news.
He then apologises for the frying effect on the record, and says that the last time someone poured a drink into the desk was Noel Edmonds and "look what happened to him. So, if you see any signs of me starting to colour my hair strangely and wear it in the style of a third division footballer of about eight years ago, then you'll know that whatever happened to him is happening to me"