28 May 1969

Show

Name

• Nameless show (former Night Ride)

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1969-05-28

Comments

• The show where Peel admitted he had VD. From Wikipedia (reproduced on the John Peel page): "During 1969, after hosting a trailer for a BBC programme on VD on his Night Ride programme, Peel received significant media attention because of admitting on air to be suffering from a sexually transmitted disease. This admission was later used in an attempt to discredit him when he appeared as a defence witness in the 1971 OZ obscenity trial. The judge in that case even instructed that a glass of water he had drunk from be thrown out."

• More on this show at the Kat's Karavan blog. Many thanks to Eddie!

Session

• John Fahey #1 First broadcast of debut session. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

• Jeff Beck Group: Plynth (LP - Cosa Nostra Beck-Ola) Columbia EMI SCX 6351
• John Fahey: Bucktown Stomp (session)
• Pete Roche: A Thing Apart (live poem)
• Indian classical music - Whistled and played on a bowed string instrument and accompanied on drum and drone (from BBC Archives)
• Krzysztof Penderecki: 'Apotheosis (from "Dies Irae: The Oratorio in Memoriam for the Victims of Auschwitz") (LP-Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorium) / Polymorphia / De Natura Sonoris)' (Philips)
• John Fahey: The Death Of The Clayton Peacock (session)

Peel chats with Tony Vandenberg about Radio 4's upcoming report on Venereal Disease.

• Colosseum: Plenty Hard Luck (LP - Those Who Are About To Die Salute You) Fontana ST5510
• John Fahey: Sunflower River Blues (session)
• Pete Roche: To See How Far It Is (live poem)
• Radio Ceylon Orchestra: Wind, String Instruments and Percussion (from BBC Archives)

Peel chats to Theresa Lever about the Youth Drama Centre in Euston

• Phil Ochs: I Kill, Therefore I Am (LP - Rehearsals for Retirement) A&M AMLS 934
• John Fahey: In Christ There Is No East or West (session)
• Romanian Radio and Television Folk Orchestra [pipes: Dumitru Zamfira]: The Hora (from BBC Archives)

Peel chats to Jon Curle about his part of Night Ride

• Pete Roche: The Skin Diver (live poem)
• Shirley and Dolly Collins: Nellie The Milkmaid (LP - Anthems in Eden) Harvest SHVL 754
• John Fahey: Steel Guitar Rag (session)
• Terry Riley: 'In C (Part 1) (LP-In C)' CBS 61237 (short extract)
• (Intro to Jazz Workshop)

File

Name

• John_Peel_-_Night_Ride_-_1969-05-28.mp3

Length

• 1:00:28

Other

Available

• Kat's Karavan

Footnotes