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How It Is

How It Is was a youth-orientated music and discussion programme transmitted on BBC1 TV in 1968-69, on which JP was a co-host and on the set of which he met Sheila for the first time. One of Peel's co-hosts was the Australian author and "futurist" Richard Neville, widely known as the co-editor of the Australian and UK versions of the counterculture magazine Oz, at the obscenity trial of which Peel testified ... (read more)

Private Passions

Private Passions is a long-running BBC Radio 3 talk programme in which the host, composer and broadcaster Michael Berkeley, invites a well-known personality to choose eight pieces of favourite music (normally but not entirely classical) and discuss them. It has been on the air weekly since 1995, and is regarded as Radio 3's equivalent of Desert Island Discs ... (read more)

• 1997 Festive Fifty (aka the Festive 31): Cornershop at #1
• 05 December 1970: Family, Mr. Fox, Brinsley Schwarz
• Strange Fruit: Peel sessions on record
• 21 May 1984: Moodists, Three Johns
• Flossie & The Unicorns: Miss Pussycat's puppets
• Middle Earth: Going underground in Covent Garden, 1967
• 18 August 1987: Heresy, AC Temple

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