New early breakfast presenters

[R94N 10]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/12/3319488/dj-john-peel-live-radio-episodes-digital-archive-streaming?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.sevenstreets.com/music-and-listening/announcements-music-and-listening/stream-john-peel-bbc-show-archive-download/

'John Peel's record collection has already been digitised, and now, hundreds of his live BBC 1 shows have been, as well. SoundCloud user +dB has uploaded 458 radio episodes from the late DJ, comprising more than 900 hours of music. The episodes date from 1967, when Peel was at Radio London, to 2004, when he completed his final shows for the BBC.'

[R94N 10]

As someone who was too young to hear him the first time around, I think I will be listening to a few of these when I get a spare moment.

[Viv 14]

Oh wow to this. Gonna please so many people.

[IamNotFromUK 17]

John who?

[Viv 14]

You ARE kidding? john peel was a brilliant presenter who died of a heart attack around 2004?! seriously....... that post is an insult to his memory.

[IamNotFromUK 17]

You ARE kidding? john peel was a brilliant presenter who died of a heart attack around 2004?! seriously....... that post is an insult to his memory.

Sorry then. You should see my nickname, I am not living in the UK, so I have no idea what was heppening 8 years ago.

[Viv 14]

Ok. Sorry too. I just felt suddenly mad at someone asking that. he was a great, great man who discovered so much new music ... A total workaholic. there is a book about his life which is brilliant.

[DC 84]

SoundCloud user +dB has uploaded 458 radio episodes

i've heard of this guy, basically he runs a site called 'mixesdb':-

http://www.mixesdb.com/w/Main_Page

not only are the peel shows on there, i've gotten some judge jules shows from there too. and there's a massive backlog of the essential mix going back to 1993 unless they have been taken down again.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz 11]

You ARE kidding? john peel was a brilliant presenter who died of a heart attack around 2004?! seriously....... that post is an insult to his memory.

most of your post history is an insult to most things...

[R94N 10]

You ARE kidding? john peel was a brilliant presenter who died of a heart attack around 2004?! seriously....... that post is an insult to his memory.

I know he was incredibly influential but to be honest I'm not sure many people would know of him outside the UK. Heck even the younger generation (i.e. most of Radio 1's audience now) have probably never heard of him. Of course this is terrible but this will happen to everything at some point. For example during the Olympics ceremonies people were tweeting saying they had no idea who Paul McCartney was.

[Harkinson 11]

Only found out about him recently through an article saying about one of the DJs he disliked.. Think it was Moyles.

[Nik B. 10]

If I remember correctly he absolutely loathed Moyles xD

[DC 84]

back in 1997 that was the case, but i think it settled down in later years.

[R94N 10]

Yes from what I've read at first Peel didn't like him a whole lot but later they made up.