Peel project - TheSpace - now live

michaeljenni2001 michael.jennings42@...
Wed May 2 12:29:59 CEST 2012


I think Mike Absalom was "of his time" but in a photo of him on the BBC website he is playing a phono-fiddle which in my book makes him a first-class kind of chap

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Blatchford <tabdrinkink74@...> wrote:
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> Oh yeah the short film was great, and  he seems like a nice bloke. Also I agree with Sheila when she said he reminds her of Father Christmas as drawn by Raymond Briggs.
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> ________________________________
>  From: Colin <colin_ellis@...>
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 3:34
> Subject: [peel] Re: Peel project - TheSpace - now live
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> Well, at the time I didn't think much of Mike Absalom - found him just another unfunny folk club singer/comedian of the Mike Harding/Fred Wedlock type, although a bit more hippyish. Interesting life story, though...
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Blatchford <tabdrinkink74@> wrote:
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> > Anyone else think this Mike Absalom record is a bit...well...awful?
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> > The website / whole project is great though, such a good job they've done of it, given the limitations of what they could actually stream etc. Glass of red raised to all. 
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> > ttfb xx
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> >  From: Paul Webster <paul@>
> > To: "peel@yahoogroups.com" <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
> > Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 19:04
> > Subject: Re: [peel] Peel project - TheSpace - now live
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> > I mentioned it on Twitter as it started ... at 8:23
> > http://twitter.com/#!/dandelionradio/status/197224723069939712
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> > Paul Webster
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> > On 1 May 2012, at 09:56, MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@> wrote:
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> > The Pig was also on BBCR4 Today programme with John Humphrys calling John Peel a great man - I'm at work so can't check out listen again but was between 8 and 8.45 sometime ...
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> > >From: Paul Webster <paul@>
> > >To: Peel Yahoo Group <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
> > >Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 9:04
> > >Subject: [peel] Peel project - TheSpace - now live
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> > >The build up to this has been mentioned a few times .... and now it is live
> > >http://thespace.org
> > >This section http://thespace.org/items/e000004w is likely to be of special interest to the audience on this Peel list.
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> > >Paul Webster
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