Ken Garner

[dunelm61]

As far as one is aware, Ken Garner is still a Senior Lecturer at 
Glasgow Caledonian University, and his email address is 
k.garner@... for anyone wishing to lobby for specific 
revisions to In Session Tonight.

But why stop at the sessions? Presumably someone such as Mr Garner 
has access to all of the PasB (programme-as-broadcast) sheets kept at 
BBC Written Archives in Caversham. These list every item that was 
played, in order; giving artist, title, duration, composer and 
publisher; with label and catalogue number, for commercial records.

Call me a train spotter, but for me that really would be the mother 
lode: the running order of every show broadcast by Peel at the BBC. 
Surely the potential market for such a tome would be considerable – 
there's this group for starters! – and as the information is 
available, there's no reason why it couldn't be done.

Quite apart from anything else, it would allow us to work out 
precisely what was in the 1977 Festive Fifty. The top 13 is well 
known. All we would have to do is find the relevant show, work 
backwards from the top 13 (allowing for a few session tracks) and 
there you have it.