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Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of 312,696 km² (120,733 sq mi). Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland's territory extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. Poland also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden.

Links to Peel[]

On his 05 March 1969 show, Peel played a Polish Wedding Song sung by the Polish Radio Folk Music Group from the BBC Archives on his Night Ride show, but it wasn't until the 80's, that the DJ started to significantly play Polish indie/alternative rock music, after a Polish DJ who he called Peter (possibly Piotr Kaczkowski, a well known Polish music DJ) visited Peel Acres and appeared on Peel's show on 12 April 1983 talking about and playing Polish records. Many polish records that were released through the Tonpress label, also got airplay on Peel's programmes in the late 80's. Some of the records that Tonpress sent him that Peel played, included artists such as TZN-Xenna, Madame, Made In Poland, Tilt, Siekiera and Armia. However, by the time the 90's arrived, Peel rarely played much music from Poland and he never had any Polish artists doing sessions for his programmes.

Sessions[]

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Festive Fifty Entries[]

None, during Peel's time, but Dandelion Radio had a track from Artykuły Rolne called 'Węże I Granaty', that entered at number 49 in the 2016 Festive Fifty