Peel's Pleasures

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Some great quotes on that ilovemusic thread. A little higher up than the extract posted 
here a couple of days ago is a request on a series called "Peel Pleasures" from 1982. I 
can't remember hearing about this before. Here's the comment:

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...Anyway, before I reminisce further and start coming over all dewy-eyed, I have a special 
REQUEST. Does anyone have a taped record of the special Saturday afternoon series of six 
shows Peelie recorded in (I think) 1981, when he sat in for John Walters, on holiday from 
his regular 'Walters Weekly' spot?? These were one hour compendium programmes 
including some of Peelie's all-time favourite records along with fantastic old sessions from 
the 60s (Sun Ra, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Fairport Convention, Ann Peebles etc) and 
many curiosities and audio-articles from the BBC archives which were nothing to do with 
music but very funny. Some fascinating stuff - plus of course liberal lashings of the Great 
One's sardonic wit. Looking back now, I suppose the programme was a kind of precursor 
to 'Home Truths'.

I got in touch with Peely a couple of months before he died to ask if he knew whether R1 
had any tapes of the series. Louise in his office replied saying that they didn't - and 
apparently John could hardly even remember recording the programmes! But, believe me 
he did - and they were superb.

If anybody has some or all of the 'Peel's Pleasures' series on tape and would be prepared 
to either make a copy or else lend them to me to copy, please could they contact me at on 
p3t3r_r4p4p0rt@....

Many thanks.

-- Pete Rap, Monday, 16 January 2006

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Sounds good, huh? Strange how these things work -- a few minutes later I was browsing 
around the Peel Wilkia Playlists section, which actually contains playlists for these self-
same "Peel Pleasures" shows:
http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Playlists

Haven't yet emailed "Pete Rap" from the thread to see if he ever got anywhere with his 
request, but kind of wondering if some of these shows are floating around somewhere. 
Maybe whoever did the playlists has them in some form.

Did I miss them among the large amount of great material floating around of late? If not, 
does anyone have them?

Cheers,

Steve W