[peel] John Peel's College Date (1974)?

[mickcapewell]

Hi Eddie

I just checked the TV and Radio guides in my old copies of the NME. According to them the "College Date" show was presented throughout the month by Stuart Henry.
In the first week of July the various shows you listed were replaced by the good old "Radio 1 Road Show", once again presented by Stuart Henry.
Perhaps Peel was supposed to do the show but couldn't for some reason...maybe he thought it was going to be crap ;-)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eddie Duffy 
  To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:12 PM
  Subject: [peel] John Peel's College Date (1974)?


    
  All,

  I recently got hold of a copy of something called Script ("The magazine of alternative radio") from June 1974. There's an interview with Peel inside, which I'll post up on the group soon, as for once the magazine is small enough to fit in my scanner.

  Reading through the magazine's programme listings for June though, I noticed something called "John Peel's College Date" on Wednesdays (5pm - 7pm). There seems to have been a school holiday theme here as Mondays in the same slot had "Rosko's Discomania", Tuesdays "Alan Freeman's Youth Club Call" and Thursdays "Dave Lee Travis' Schools Out" (with Rosko's Roundtable in the Friday slot as usual).

  Does anyone recall this show? I can find no reference to it in TPS: in fact there are no Wednesday shows listed in 1974 at all. Perhaps this was the precursor to the Mon & Thurs tea-time show (5:15pm - 7pm) that Peel acquired at the start of 1975...?

  Eddie.