Peeling Back The Years

[dunelm61]

Here is the text of an email I have just sent to the BBC. If any of 
you would like to back me up, and add a bit of weight to my 
suggestions, please feel free to do so! The address I have used is 
playsitagain.6music@.... Thanks.

Hello. I'm writing with a suggestion for the Plays It Again slot 
which I hope you will consider.
 
In 1987, Radio One broadcast a series of six shows called Peeling 
Back The Years, in which John Peel discussed his life, career in 
broadcasting and music generally with his friend and colleague John 
Walters. I assume that the recordings still exist in the BBC 
archives, because clips derived from the series were used in various 
tributes broadcast by the BBC last year.
 
I appreciate that Plays It Again usually features a particular 
musician or band, rather than a DJ. However, John Peel was no 
ordinary DJ, and any trawl through the various web sites will show 
how much he is missed, and how much interest in him is out there. 
And Peeling Back The Years was a particularly fascinating series, 
covering as it did some forty years of popular music.
 
As a further suggestion, John Peel's autobiography Jesus Wasn't Made 
of Fish is published later in the year, and a rebroadcast of Peeling 
Back The Years would tie in nicely.
 
I hope my suggestions merit serious consideration - many of us would 
love to hear this series again.