[peel] Re: Radio 6 - good news

[Paul Webster]

> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Eddie Duffy <eddie.duffy@b...> wrote:
> > Paul Webster wrote:
> > > The "full" versions that they have made available for download
> > > (part 1 and part 2) are only 38 and 40 minutes long respectively.
> > >
> > > Anyone know if the originals really were one hour long?
> > >
> > > Paul
> > Thanks again for the upload, Paul!
> >
> > I've got programs 5 and 6, and they're just under an hour apiece.
> > They appear to be from the original transmission, as there's a few
> > seconds from the end of Johnny Walker's Stereo Sequence at the start of
> > show 5, and Johnny mentions Lloyd Cole's new album 'Mainstream'
(released
> > in 1987/88), before introducing the show.
> >
> > Eddie.
>     Eventually discovered that the full versions actually have had
> much of the music 'hacked at' and reduced to just a few seconds
> clips. This after 6Music declared "You can listen online to the
> compete 6 hours of programmes". Very misleading...and disappointing.
> To the best of my knowledge the programmes haven't been aired (in
> full) for nearly eighteen years. Surely for the sake of the odd
> twenty minutes on Listen Again they could put out the full version.
>              Chris Stephens.
So - someone could have a go at doing a Last-Perfumed-Radio-style
reconstruction ... but ... I have some good news.
I have a full episode 1. It was rebroadcast earlier this year (27th Aug
2005) on BBC 7 - within Purely Peel.

Paul