BBC News / Radio 4 drops Peel's Home Truths

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MUMBO JUMBO ON THE RADIO

Thank God for that !
There's a letter in the Radio Times requesting just
this and stating that Peel "owned" the show and just
about made it's disparate elements fuse OK.
Sometimes it was a welcome alternative to endless
sports trivia / badpop on the other stations, whilst
making a fried egg with a fried head !

Debbie Russ







--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Tom Roche <troche@m...> wrote:
>
> Radio 4 drops Peel's Home Truths
>   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4527536.stm
> 
> 
> BBC Radio 4 is to drop Home Truths, the Saturday morning programme 
> hosted by John Peel until his death last year.
> 
> The programme, which explored the experiences and lives of its 
> listeners, built up a dedicated following after its launch in 1998.
> 
> After Peel's death from a heart attack, guest presenters have 
fronted the show.
> 
> Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer said: "John's personality was bound 
> up in Home Truths, and now it's time to look for a different 
> programme."
> 
>   Mr Damazer said a new programme - which would "continue to 
feature 
> the sometimes extraordinary experiences of its listeners" - would 
> replace Home Truths after it is dropped in the spring.
> 
> He added: "John Peel's death last year was a terrible shock. We did 
> not want to make a decision in haste so with the support and hard 
> work of the highly-skilled production team and the pool of great 
> presenters, the programme has continued.
> 
> "I'd like to thank everyone who has worked on the programme since 
> John's death."
> 
> The programme was born out of a previous Peel-fronted show, 
> Offspring, and helped introduce the veteran DJ, best known for 
> playing ground-breaking music on Radio 1, to a new audience.
> 
> Features he dealt with included a nine-year-old boy who acted as a 
> carer for his severely epileptic mother, to a woman talking about 
her 
> enthusiasm for sniffing her pets.
> 
> Guest presenters since Peel's death have included writer David 
> Stafford, musician Tom Robinson and comedian Linda Smith.
>