[peel] Peel Day 2009

[Ben Harrison]

Mark -- thanks for the reply about Peel Day 09

Hi Ben.  For some reason I'd made a note about it being 15.10.09 - but I
> could be wrong.


Oh aye - I was since reminded that it's on the third Thursday of October -
so that makes sense.
That's around the time of the Deepavali Festival - so that's nice - it's the
'Festival of Light' - which falls on the following weekend.

I do sometimes think having Peel Day where it is is a bit fiddly.
Celebrating his birthday always seemed like a nicer idea.





> There were some BBC-related events last year such as the BBC Radio
> Merseyside night, but official sanctioning was very muted.
>
> Of course this is also the fifth anniversary, and we at Dandelion Radio
> certainly have plans to commemorate it in a big way during the month.
>
> Mark W
>
> ---- Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...> wrote:
> > Happy Monday. Plans to mark Peel Day 2009 are already afoot in Singapore.
> > A Google-hunt hasn't provided me with any answers yet.
> > So, in case anybody out there knows better, let us know if it's wrong
> > to presume it will fall on 8.10.09.
> >
> > Was last year's one not exactly sanctioned by the BBC?
> > I wasn't around to know. Online evidence it was marked by folk who simply
> > decided to make a day of it.
> > Hoorah.
>
>