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• Radio One More Time: Walters' Week

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:59 am

  Tags: Radio 1, John Peel, Janice Long, John Walters, Radio One More Time

  with the mingle-mangle musicJohn Walters is, of course, remembered as John Peel's producer, the man who had to "ring up Mrs. X and ask if her Overlord wanted to come on the programme." He also was a member of the Alan Price Set, scoring a top ten hit in his own right. But he also had another role - that of Radio One's arts correspondent.Sort of

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• Radio One More Time: Sessions

  Published: September 2, 2007, 5:57 am

  Tags: Radio 1, Pulp, John Peel, Jarvis Cocker, Radio One More Time, Evening Session

  seriously, while replaying a John Peel session by, say, The Buzzcocks is appealing even now, had Simon Bates been in charge of booking the session acts, the archive might have consisted of much more Joan Armatrading.Besides fulfilling the needs of the BBC to take the needle off the record, the sessions also provided a lifeline to new bands - the

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• Radio One More Time: You'll Never Be 16 Again

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:38 am

  Tags: Radio 1, John Peel, Radio One More Time

  it's seldom been bettered.Peeling Back The Years was sort-of-revived, briefly, by BBC7 during its celebrations of John Peel's life, only even they could only be bothered to play one half of one episode, even though it remains something of a definitive biography of the man. In conversation with John Walters, Peel told his life story through the

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• Radio One More Time: Bird or bloke?

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:38 am

  Tags: Radio 1, Marc Riley, Competitions, 31 Days In May, John Peel, Mark Radcliffe, Radio One More Time

  buy". All presenters - even John Peel was roped in, admitting he felt "nervous as a kitten" seconds before playing his "trigger record" (Teenage Kicks, of course) and then asking some sort of questions which won a caller the chance to go to a European football match with him.It was all very impressive, but - really - nowhere near as much fun for

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• Radio One More Time: Christmas Lunch at Grey Gables

  Published: September 17, 2007, 3:33 am

  Tags: Radio 1, The Archers, Steve Wright, Radio 4, John Peel, Radio One More Time

  had been at school with John Peel. This seemed slightly unlikely - a social climber like Linda would surely have been keen to drop that gem into conversation at any opportunity - but did earn Peel an appearance or two in Archers scenes. Trouble was, he turned out to be rubbish at doing his own voice, and sounded more like they'd got someone

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• Radio One More Time: Sound City

  Published: September 21, 2007, 2:56 am

  Tags: Radio 1, John Peel, Radio One More Time

  my path was crossed by John Peel, his son and a couple of their friends. That, in itself, wasn't so very strange, but four paces behind them was a bunch of starstruck Scousers, trailing along in mute admiration. Peel was in town as part of Sound City, one of those events where Radio One would just pitch up and take command of a town's music

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• Radio One More Time: Keeping It Peel

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:53 am

  Tags: Radio 1, Keeping It Peel, Colin Murray, John Peel, Radio One More Time

  programme called Keeping It Peel. This isn't totally inappropriate - Wood had been lined up as a guest host to cover what turned out to be Peel's final holiday - but the attaching of a Hollywood name to the Peel show demonstrates how far from "Keeping It Peel" the network has drifted.Clearly, Colin Murray is seen as being a sort-of the 2007's

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• Festive Fifty 2007

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: John Peel, Festive 50, Polls

  The good people over at Dandelion Records are running a 2007 Festive Fifty, along the same rules as John Peel's annual poll - although whether they'll actually be printing the poll forms out and entering the details in a large ledger as they come in isn't clear. You've got until the end of November to choose your three tracks.

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• Harvey Sid's big moment

  Published: July 4, 2008, 5:29 pm

  Tags: John Peel

  for listeners of weekend era John Peel, as they showed some all-too-breif clips of Harvey Sid Fisher doing his Astrology Songs. Back when Peel was treating us to a song a week from the deranged tribute tohoroscopes, he said there were rumours of a video - who knew it would take Jimmy Carr to bring it to

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