A rare opportunity to hear John Peel's first ever broadcast on BBC Radio 1. The 6 Music Plays It Again strand will be extended by half an hour this week as the network remembers the late ...

A THEATRE with the community at its heart has launched a winter fundraising appeal. Wigton's John Peel Theatre, which dates back to 1885, is hoping to raise funds to help cover additional expenses and ...

Legendary radio DJ John Peel has died aged 65. The veteran presenter, who discovered dozens of major bands during 40 years of broadcasting, suffered a heart attack last night while on holiday in ...

Within hours of the news of John Peel’s death at the age of 65 on October 25, 2004, The Undertones’ "Teenage Kicks" had, by virtue of radio and TV news bulletins, selected itself as the nation ...

The Peel Sessions began when John realised he had to play by more rules than he was used to at pirate radio when he joined the BBC in 1967. John's show had to air a large amount of non-recorded music.

After John Peel's death in 2004, his family organised for an expert to catalogue the DJ's sprawling record collection. Following a week of trawling through more than 120,000 albums, 12 inches and ...

This was John Peel, introducing Top Of The Pops in 1982, wryly acknowledging the image people had of him even then as a curat... “In case you’re thinking to yourselves, ‘Who is that twerp?’ ...

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A Soundcloud user's personal collection of recordings of the John Peel Show has been gaining listeners as word spreads of its existence. This particular collection has many complete shows from ...