A profile of the life and career of the legendary D.J. John Peel, which was broadcast on BBC2 in 1999 during John Peel Night, to celebrate his 60th birthday !!
@danielhintz There was a documentary on The Fall, where John Peel contributed a lot to the programme, but on this occasion, it was mainly about his life and his works.
@ 9:00.... She is talking utter bollocks. "Home Truths" was great... We the listeners loved it as much for Peel himself, as for the subjects the programme dealt with. There was no cynicism on anyone's part.
Yes. In fact, Home Truths was the first programme to put the lives of ordinary people on the radio in that way. Culturally important, like nearly everything Peel was involved in. Great man.
Yeah that daft old biffer made some snooty comment about his school in part 3. They always seem to get never has beens to talk about such people, what's with the weird bloke talking about 'carllege'? As usual the one's talking most sense are those that were there, Kershaw, Walters, Siouxsie & Pete Shelley etc
I'm sure it was the sae documentary where they also featured Bob Marley, Brinsley Scwarz, Joy Division and more. Plus the clips had info about the groups along the bottom of the screen. Is this maybe edited?
I'm guessing this is a repeat from after his death due to the mention of BBC Four at the end which didn't launch until 2002 and the memoriam slide at the end.
