The tracklisting details below come from the collection of Peel Mailing List member grang354.
Peel admits that he was the only boy in school who cried when he heard of the death of King George VI in 1952. The record he plays here was also included in his choices for Desert Island Discs, as was the Roy Orbison track.
The 'Chris' JP urges to get the phone is producer Chris Lycett.
A song by the classical composer Peter Warlock, reportedly the father of Brian Sewell.
The classical piece which ends the show was composed by JP's namesake, the Baroque composer John Ravenscroft[1]
(JP: (talking about session tapes) '...tapes were sent back and reused for something like Gardener's Question Time, which are now kept forever in steel-lined cases in a mineshaft somewhere in the Home Counties. But the Bonzo sessions, as I say, went the way of all flesh. They did a wonderful thing called 'The Craig Torso Show', which I should very much like to have on tape. But we have a session from them, from 1969.')
(JP: 'The original, of course, by Bobby Boris Pickett, and as a little sidelight, Paul Gambaccini once phoned Bobby Boris Pickett from our house, and phoned him in New York. It took us some time to recover the money, but that's not the point I was going to make. He was making notes about his phone conversation, and Gambaccini has such a heavy hand that you can still read most of his notes in our kitchen table. Thanks a lot for that, Paul.')
Jolly Two: Railroad Stomp
(JP: 'I lived for four years in Dallas Texas. Interesting place it was, too, still is, I suppose, and one of the artistes that I used to see fairly regularly in Dallas was Roy Orbison...very wonderful he was, too.)
(JP: 'And now a comment from our industrial correspondent.')
(Recording of news reader who valiantly tries to pronounce 'comment'...and fails.)
Hughie Green: Stand Up And Be Counted (patriotic monologue with music, written in response to the economic crisis - the Labour government seeking a loan from the International Monetary Fund - in 1976)
(BBC Archive recording of a man who attempted to persuade Hitler not to start the Second World War by getting him interested in collecting cigarette cards)
Noël Coward: Could You Please Oblige Us With A Bren Gun
↑This hilarious song includes a silence deliberately written in to challenge the BBC's emergency tape, and a parody of the Plastic Ono Band's 'Give Peace A Chance', apparently substituting 'booze', which prompts Peel to say, 'I wasn't a drinking man then, all that changed fairly rapidly.'