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[lorcan58]

I'm afraid I have a terrible confession to make. I may have been (at least in part) responsible for Peel having to give those warnings.

One night in the 90s I was just drifting off to sleep with Peel on the radio when he played an extract from a comedy programme that was airing on BBC Radio 1 at the time (Blue something?) which featured disarmingly realistic sound affects of people being tortured (crucified, I think) and of course I ended up wide awake and bolt upright wondering what on earth I was hearing.

Once I'd calmed down again I fired off an email to Peel, which wasn't actually worded as a complaint but did say what a horrible record it was and mentioned that the Blue-whatever programme was at least preceded by a warning. The BBC being the organisation it is, I suspect the email worked its way through the system, and the warnings started a month or so later.

It was clear that Peel disliked having to make the warnings, probably (and quite reasonably) thinking that anyone who listened to the show should know what to expect. It's been my guilty secret since then that I inadvertently caused him a moment's annoyance at the start of every programme from that night on.

Lorcan

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, john guthrie <grafpoo@...> wrote:
>
> he did, at some point, start making those announcements early in the show to
> the effect that someone with delicate ears may hear something they wouldn't
> want to hear, and should turn off their radio if they were concerned about
> this. yes? if i weren't a bit drunk right now i could pin this down
> better....
> 
> john
> 
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:40 PM, So It Goes 2512 <
> so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Hi Alan
> >
> > This has the smack of urban legend. If John had started to play anything
> > that contained more than an occasional oath (and he even did this with
> > Burning Love Jumpsuit in 2002, only ever playing half of the track), he
> > would have taken it off immediately with a spluttered apology.
> > Moreover, the move to 11 pm did not happen until the end of September 1990
> > and was not preceded by John being taken off the air. There are other DJs
> > who could be candidates as subjects for this story, e.g. Alan Freeman, who
> > mysteriously ended his Saturday Rock Show very shortly after giving the full
> > title of a certain Sex Pistols LP) and Johnnie Walker, who never hesitated
> > to speak his mind about the Bay City Rollers and M******t T******r.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Steve (TK)
> >
> >
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, cannon alan <ajcauk@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi group
> > >
> > > In conversation the other day someone said that John Peel had been taken
> > off
> > > air for a few weeks because
> > > he played a B-side by mistake that was expletive ridden back in the 80's
> > when
> > > he was on at 10 at night and then moved to
> > > 11. Is this an exaggeration or an embellishment? I remember the change of
> > hours
> > > that's all.
> > >
> > > alanjc
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
>