17 March 1997 (BFBS)

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Start of show: "Hello again, hewers of wood and drawers of water, it's time for another crisp new John Peel's Music On BFBS. This seems like an appropriate start."
John details the places that he has officially opened, something he usually resists doing. The first was a record shop in Camden at the end of the 1960s; the second, in around 1982, a flower show in Battisford; the third in 1996 at an animal feed store in Bury St Edmunds (his pay being a year's supply of layers pellets); and his most recent was an invitation to open a resource centre in Stowmarket, at which the local dignitary forgot his name when introducing him. "That is just perfect. Things like that give me so much pleasure."

King Tubby & Santic Allstars: 'Shooter Dub (Compilation CD-2 Heavyweight - Another Blood And Fire Sampler)' (Blood & Fire)
Dura-Delinquent: 'Kidnapped (7")' (Lunar Recordings)
N.T.T.: 'Mars (12"-Bad Strawberry EP)' (Integral Recordings) ^[1]
Chrome Kranks: 'Comeback (LP-Oily Cranks)' (Atavistic)
Falcons: 'You're So Fine (Compilation CD-The Golden Age Of American Rock'N'Roll Volume 6)' (Ace)
Guided By Voices: 'If We Wait (CD-Sunfish Holy Breakfast)' (Matador)
Flaming Stars: Bury My Heart At Pier 13 (7")' (Vinyl Japan)
Talvin Singh: 'Heavy Intro (vocals by Amar) (Compilation CD-Talvin Singh Presents Anokha: Soundz Of The Asian Underground)' (Mango)
Low: 'Throw Out The Line (CD-Long Division)' (Vernon Yard Recordings / Virgin America)
Hitchers: 'Killed it With My Bare Hands (7")' (Murgatroid)
Make-Up: 'At The Tone...(The Time Will Be) (CD-After Dark)' (Dischord)
Bomb 20: 'Justified (12"-Choice Of The Righteous)' (Digital Hardcore Recordings)
Jah Stitch: 'Ragga Muffin Style (Compilation CD-2 Heavyweight - Another Blood And Fire Sampler)' (Blood & Fire)
Simon Joyner: 'Robin Hood (Compilation 7"-Songs From A Room)' (Sing, Eunuchs!)
Alex Handley: 'The Butterfly Factor (2x12"-Sideways EP)' (Emissions Audio Output)
Butterflies Of Love: 'Rob A Bank (7")' (Fortuna Pop!)
(news - edited out)
International Strike Force: 'Let’s Go Inter Strike Force! [LetsGo!] (7 inch – Soeur..?)’ Slampt
Blue Orchids: 'Work (7")' (Rough Trade)

(JP: 'Anybody who writes in and says "That's the best record you've played this week" is in trouble, I'll warn you about that now.')

Low-Fi Generator: 'Übersteigerung Der Beat-Rhythmen (CD-Stereo)' (Normal)
Dream City Film Club: 'Perfect Piece Of Trash (CDS)' (Beggars Banquet)
Orb: 'Toxygene (Ganga Kru Remix #2) (Compilation CD-FMCD March 1997)' (Future Music Magazine)
Fall: 'Don't Call Me Darling (CD-In The City...)' (Artful)
Kletka Red: 'Sirba (CD-Hijacking)' (Tzadik)
I Roy: 'Hot Stuff (LP-Don't Check Me With No Lightweight Stuff (1972-1975))' (Blood & Fire)
Bowery Electric: 'Fear Of Flying (CD-Beat)' (Beggars Banquet)
Sid Presley Experience: 'Public Enemy Number One (7")' (I.D.)
Bana Maquis: 'Bana Maquis (LP-Leila)'
Cap'n Jazz: 'Little League (2xCD-Analphabetapolothology)' (Jade Tree)
Beatnik Filmstars: 'Wing Off A Plane (CD-Phase 3)' (Mobstar)
Experimental Audio Research: 'Untitled (CD-The Köner Experiment)' (Space Age Recordings)

Very good sound with occasional interference and changes to mono. Many thanks to Peel Mailing List member ckitlee.

↑ Includes a sample of 'Mars' from Gustav Holst's suite The Planets. As JP notes, Holst gets no writing credit.