[peel] Bugger BBC4 Peel

[Eddie Duffy]

Martin Wheatley wrote:

>
> I didn't see any of it but looking in the Radio Times ......
>
> The half hour documentary 'Dear John' is new and will no doubt be 
> repeated
> very soon as most BBC4 progs are but it's not on again up till the end of
> next week.

That sounds like the same documentary that was put together a week or so 
after Peel's death.

>
> The Fall prog is presumably the documentary from a few months ago 
> which has
> been shown a number of times on BBC4 and I think also BBC2
>
Yes, I caught it last night. It is indeed the same documentary, but it's 
an excellent retrospective on the Fall. Mark E. Smith was approachable 
and comprehensible, lots of old members were prepared to speak, and they 
were fortunate to start filming just early enough to get some words from 
Peelie (and show the band recording what would be their last session).

> The 3rd prog 'In Session Tonight' (where have I heard that title before!)
> looks like it is just a compilation of past tv perfomances by bands that
> Peel liked without any direct Peel involvement.

That's also been on before, again in the wake of Peel's death last year. 
I think it's essentially a compendium of two programs called "John 
Peel's Sounds of the Sixties & Seventies" and "...Eighties & Nineties" 
with some extra, newer material thrown in.

>
> In short it looks even more cobbled together than 6Music's Peel coverage!
>
> martinw
>
Yeah, pretty much all repeats. Wouldn't have minded seeing the stuff 
after midnight though (PJ Harvey, etc.)

Eddie.