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| - The first show was broadcast in September 1976, and was described in that month's London Calling listing as "John Peel selects tracks from a newly released album and some singles from the progressive rock scene in London." The accompanying article said "Britain's leading rock music presenter, John Peel, makes his World Service debut this month with the start of a weekly show featuring albums newly-released in Britain and some of the current singles. Peel, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of pop, has started many of today's British performers on their road to success. His sympathies are wide-ranging from progressive rock to folk and jazz rock, from country to reggae." The new show was to be broadcast at 23:30 GMT on Saturdays, with repeats at 12:15 GMT Mondays and 08:30 GMT Wednesdays.
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| - The first show was broadcast in September 1976, and was described in that month's London Calling listing as "John Peel selects tracks from a newly released album and some singles from the progressive rock scene in London." The accompanying article said "Britain's leading rock music presenter, John Peel, makes his World Service debut this month with the start of a weekly show featuring albums newly-released in Britain and some of the current singles. Peel, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of pop, has started many of today's British performers on their road to success. His sympathies are wide-ranging from progressive rock to folk and jazz rock, from country to reggae." The new show was to be broadcast at 23:30 GMT on Saturdays, with repeats at 12:15 GMT Mondays and 08:30 GMT Wednesdays. In the early 80's, according to "London Calling" of February 1982, the show was broadcast on Tuesday at 03:30, repeated Thursday at 08:30 and Friday at 14:30 GMT and was described as: "John Peel - selects tracks from a newly released albums and singles from the progressive rock scene in London." Another description can be heard in the announcement before October 1983 (BBC World Service) show: (Radio announcer): "Music next in the World Service, with John Peel, presenting samples of new music from the British rock scene". By the mid 80's, the intial play of the show had reverted to Saturdays with repeats 08:30 Wed. From mid 1987 onwards foreign acts became a regular feature on the show. A documented occasion on which John Peel plays a record by an American band on the World Service, is the Late January 1987 (BBC World Service) show (a fragment), featuring Throwing Muses, although the first World Service show where Peel makes an announcement that he will be playing non-UK music is 28 February 1987 (BBC World Service) By February 1988, according to "London Calling" of February 1988, the show was broadcast on Tuesday at 03:30, repeated Thursday at 08:30 and Friday at 13:30 GMT. But by November 1990, the show had reverted to Saturdays at 17:15, with repeats on Tuesday at 03:30 and Thursdays at 08:30, which was still the situation when the BBC Genome Project started listing the BBC World Service schedules in 1993. However the show was occasionally moved on Saturday due to sports programmes, such as in May 1991, and from January to March 1994 when it was broadcast at 14:01. In April 1995 according to the BBC Genome project the broadcasts had changed to 03:30 and 14:30 on Mondays, 03:30 Tuesdays, 23:15 on Fridays. However the Tom Roche tapes prove that the BBC Genome listings are wrong in summer 1995, with Peel Shows broadcast at 18:30 on Sundays and 12:15 on Tuesdays. Another significant change came in early 1990's, when John Peel broke the rule not to play anything on the World Service that was not a current release. Among the first acts to be featured with an old release was The Fall, as on the show from November 1991 (BBC World Service), with a track from the LP "Hex Enduction Hour" from 1982. Because the World Service programmes were prerecorded, they lacked some typical features of the Radio 1 show, like the "wrong speed" moments or Peel playing a wrong track, although at least on one occasion he made the latter mistake, playing All About Eve by the Wedding Present, but announcing it twice as Getting Nowhere Fast. Session recordings from his domestic programmes became an intermittent feature after the establishment of Strange Fruit in the latter half of the 1980s, but Ken Garner documents a play for the first Siouxsie & The Banshees set the same day that it went out on Radio 1, 06 February 1978. The BBC World Service 30 minute weekly shows continued until John's death. He had pre-recorded 3 World Service shows to be broadcast whilst he was in Peru (unlike his regular Radio 1 shows where he had celebrity guest DJs standing in for him), but in the week that he died, the World Service compiled and broadcast a Tribute Show instead. The final 3 pre-recorded shows were then broadcast in November 2004 with the blessing of his family.
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