John Peels tracklistings ??

[ken garner]

All suggestions so far very useful and correct for our colleague: 
Let's hear the show as a digital file, please! Because, yes, given 
the shows index in my book, it should now be possible to date almost 
any Peel show based on a complete (or even one-third complete) tape, 
as long as it has a session in it. Ones without sessions might be 
trickier!

Do the running orders survive? To sum up info which is referred to in 
tiny print in the intro to the back half of my book (for the benefit 
of those who do not have it yet - and by the way, sales have tailed 
off so feel free to get shopping!)...

- Almost every running order of every Peel show up to about 1996 
survives on microfilms of the original typed scripts or PasBs 
(Programme as Broadcast) held at BBC Written Archives, Caversham 
(near Reading). One or two are missing, a few more are fragmentary or 
damaged. But most are fine. Anyone can request a booking to spend 
time on a given day (they tell you the dates you can have in their 
reading room) reading them, although this is most commonly done by 
academics and historians.

- After 1996 things get complicated. Radio 1 switched to just doing 
digital copyright music reports, on their own Romeo computer. Some of 
these are in there , some not, but they are generally not accessible 
to anyone outside Radio 1. There is no agreed system for such digital 
files to be 'archived' to Written Archives! Louise Kattenhorn, Peel's 
last producer, did arrange for those scripts she had from her years 
01-04 to go on the R1 website as noted.

- However, both Alison Howe (Peel producer 95-98) and Anita Kamath 
(Peel producer 98-01) continued to produce their own PasBs for 
production purposes. These hard copies' location or survival is a 
mystery. Anita gave them, 2 or 3 boxes of A4 paper effectively, to 
Phil Lawton, before his job as R1 archivist was abolished in 2001. 
Before he left the BBC, Phil transferred them at Maida Vale to Roger 
Olive, of Digital Archives Preservations. He then sent them off with 
loads of other stuff to BBC Written Archives sometime around the time 
of John's death (2004? 2005?). Jeff Walden at Written Archives (very 
helpful bloke) has so far (last time we spoke in November) not 
managed to locate them, but says they might be in truck loads of 
stuff they've been sent in recent years by various BBC production 
departments, but simply have not had time to find out what's in the 
boxes and catalogue it! So there you go. I think I'll ask him again 
now it's on my mind...

ken

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "vinpinman" <vinpinman@...> wrote:
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> Got thrown by the use of the name Adam.
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> Will get back to the wiki soon, this I still think will be the best 
> way of keeping track of, ahem, track listings.
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Riving Ton <deedeeramain@> wrote:
> >
> > ........or you could simply post the archives as a torrent / 
> yousendit /megaupload and we'll identify them for you (hint, hint!!)
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> > DeeDee
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> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: michael stoecker <michstoecker@>
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 4:58:55 AM
> > Subject: RE: [peel] John Peels tracklistings ??
> > 
> > Adam,
> > 
> > Well, the easiest thing to do would be to listen to the show and 
> pick out the session tracks specifically and then grab Mr. Garner's 
> tome and just look up when the session was played. That should get 
> you any date. 
> > 
> > Michael
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> > To: peel@yahoogroups. com
> > From: lollygagger@ talktalk. net
> > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:04:57 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [peel] John Peels tracklistings ??
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> > Thanks for your help
> >  
> > I was looking for 1988
> >  
> > The web BBC website with track listings for 2002 -2004 is useful 
> to know.
> >  
> > I am archiving some old tapes and it is useful to date them 
> accurately.
> >  
> > It would also be useful to find a given track as most of my tapes 
> only have month and year on them.
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> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Phil Edwards 
> > To: peel@yahoogroups. com 
> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:03 PM
> > Subject: RE: [peel] John Peels tracklistings ??
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> > Here's some of them.
> > http://www.bbc. co.uk/radio1/ johnpeel/ tracklistings/
> >  
> > Phil
> >  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: peel@yahoogroups. com [mailto:peel@ yahoogroups. com]On 
> Behalf Of lollygagger
> > Sent: 02 March 2008 20:35
> > To: peel@yahoogroups. com
> > Subject: [peel] John Peels tracklistings ??
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> > Hi All
> >  
> > Did the BBC keep John's tracklistings for his shows?
> >  
> > If not are they available anywhere?
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> > Adam
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