26 June 1968

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The tracklisting comes from the collection of Peel Group member Paul Bryant, with additional information drawn from Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions. Further tracks from Tim Joseph.
The Incredible String Band's session was - apart from one track - previously broadcast on the first Peel Night Ride, on 6 March 1968. It was the only Night Ride session to be repeated during the run of the programme.
After the Liverpool poets' appearances in the earlier programmes, the featured poet in this Night Ride is Tom Pickard, a leading light in the still lively Newcastle poetry scene and organiser of readings at the historic Morden Tower venue. Like his Liverpool contemporaries, Pickard was involved with music at this time; his band, King Ida's Watch Chain, performed at Middle Earth, among other venues, but never recorded.
No recording of this programme has been found (so far).

Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
Incredible String Band: You Get Brighter Every Day (session) # (last on PB tracklisting)
Monks Of Kume Tarsang Monastery: The Eternal Voice (from BBC Archives) #
Tom Pickard - Factory/The Bed/To my Unborn Son (poems) #
Blind Willie McTell: Statesboro' Blues
Marc Bolan talking about the Festival Of London
Incredible String Band: I Bid You Goodnight (session)
John Fahey - Brenda's Blues (LP: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death) Riverboat Records RB1 (US release) (or, more probably, British release on Transatlantic TRA 173) #
Tom Pickard - The Gimber (poem) #
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Pride Of Man (album - Quicksilver Messenger Service) Capitol ST-2904
Aboriginal Children Traditional Song (BBC Archives) #
John tells a story about walking through Hyde Park with ducks
Incredible String Band - Won't You Come See Me (session) @ #
Les Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet - Rhapsodie de Budapest (45 rpm) Ducretet-Thomson #
Tom Pickard - Mr Musbeetle's message to Me (poem) #
The Deviants - Deviation Street (LP: Ptooff!) Impressario IMP 1 #
Max Saint-Something - Theme from Telemann (this could actually be Max Reger, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Telemann, Op.134 ) # (TJ tracklist has Vivaldi Trio in E Major
Quartet Improvisation for Kwang-go (Korean) (from BBC Archives) #
Incredible String Band - All Too Much For Me (session) #