[peel] Looking for late August 1981 shows ("O Superman")

[Stuart Brooks]

And The Peel Sessions claims that John first played it in June 1981 and then enthusiastically through the summer, but that conflicts with what John said in September.

On 4 May 2019 22:13:34 BST, "Stuart Brooks stuartb@brooks22.plus.com [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>You said you had, rereading your email! It also looks like it was first
>played by Peel's regular guest Bob George, according to a 2016 Guardian
>article. The wiki mentions Bob's first tape on the 30th November show,
>he'd visited Peel Acres a few weeks previously, and Peel refers to Bob
>as the one that "brought you O Superman". 
>
>On 4 May 2019 21:58:51 BST, "Stuart Brooks stuartb@...s.com
>[peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>Not so far, I expect you will have heard John say on the 1st September
>>show that he and Richard Skinner had been going mad over the record
>>"over the past week". 
>>Stuart
>>
>>On 4 May 2019 19:30:44 BST, "'S. Alexander Reed'
>>s.alexander.reed@gmail.com [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I figure that by now, Peel fans have found most of what we’re gonna
>>>find, but I wanted to ask just in case…
>>>
>>>I’m writing a book on Laurie Anderson’s Big Science, and I'm trying
>to
>>>locate the first broadcast of “O Superman" by Peel (or Dave Lee
>Travis
>>>or Richard Skinner).  On September 1, 1981, Peel plays the song and
>>>notes that people have been writing letters to him and Skinner about
>>it
>>>for “the last week or so.”  But the Peel show archives (an
>astonishing
>>>resource) seem not to have any episodes from late August ’81.
>>>
>>>Anyhow, I figured I’d ask here, just in case there was water to be
>>>squeezed from the rock: does anyone happen to know about (or have a
>>>tape of) the BBC debut of “O Superman”?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Alex Reed, Ph.D.