Seventeen minutes of a two-hour show, recently discovered on a reel-to-reel tape by Peel Mailing List user andysmith10. The Donovan session is also available, which includes a very small snippet of John at the end of the final track.
Information on a couple of gaps in the track listing courtesy of Ken Garner of Peel Mailing List. Tracks marked § appear on the PasB but not on any recordings here.
Peel plays a single by Ars Nova, an American band with some members who had a background in early music, hence their name. Their Elektra LP included arrangements of pieces by Claudio Monteverdi and Guillaume de Machaut alongside their own material. Their best-known song was "Fields Of People", played here and later covered by the Move
Peel dedicates Tim Rose's "Hello Sunshine" to some "very tired" students he had met, who had been occupying university premises to obtain "some say in the way they were educated", an aim with which he sympathises. Because his link is incomplete, no specific higher education institution is mentioned, but Hornsey College of Art and the London School of Economics were regarded as centres of student militancy at the time, as was Essex University, where protests were ongoing during May and June 1968 - full story here.
Sessions[]
Nice, #3. Recorded 1968-06-10. No known commercial release.
Donovan, #2. Recorded 1968-06-11. No known commercial release. "Skip-A-Long Sam" was only broadcast on the repeat airing on 21 July 1968.
Chicken Shack, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1968-04-17. No known commercial release.
Gilbert, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1968-05-14, repeat, first broadcast 19 May 1968. No known commercial release. This is actually Gilbert O'Sullivan: background on p. 55 of The Peel Sessions.