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| - Peel's early programmes for Radio 1 drew enthusiastic listener response, and attracted the attention of a few Rado 3 producers (notably the poet George Macbeth), who were keen to attract a younger, "intelligent", non-classical music audience to the station. Peel was seen as a key figure in this undertaking. Radio 3's head of music Hans Keller appeared on Night Ride in early 1969, along with two musicians who also presented programmes on the station, David Munrow (whose series for children, Pied Piper, sometimes included pop music tracks) and Christopher Hogwood. After the demise of Night Ride, Radio 3 broadcast occasional programmes of poetry and folk, often produced by George Macbeth and including artists who had appeared on Night Ride and Top Gear, such as Al Stewart and Lindisfarne.
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| - Peel's early programmes for Radio 1 drew enthusiastic listener response, and attracted the attention of a few Rado 3 producers (notably the poet George Macbeth), who were keen to attract a younger, "intelligent", non-classical music audience to the station. Peel was seen as a key figure in this undertaking. Radio 3's head of music Hans Keller appeared on Night Ride in early 1969, along with two musicians who also presented programmes on the station, David Munrow (whose series for children, Pied Piper, sometimes included pop music tracks) and Christopher Hogwood. After the demise of Night Ride, Radio 3 broadcast occasional programmes of poetry and folk, often produced by George Macbeth and including artists who had appeared on Night Ride and Top Gear, such as Al Stewart and Lindisfarne. Peel supplied narration to cultural programmes in the Seventies on Radio 3, especially those relating to modern rock and even jazz music. Most of them went out in the station's early evening slot, devoted to "educational" broadcasts. The first regular programme to feature pop music on Radio 3 was Derek Jewell's Sounds Interesting, but Peel soon became highly critical of it, as it ignored the punk revolution..According to the Genome website, he didn't appear on any programmes for the station in the Eighties. His next documented appearance was an interview for The Music Machine in 1994. He was subsequently invited to discuss his favourite classical music pieces for Private Passions in 1996. Although he was never an expert in the station's main output of classical music he was known to listen to the Saturday morning Record Review programme, and expressed his admiration for the expertise of the critics who highlighted differences between various recorded interpretations of specific pieces of music, in the programme's Building A Library section. However, the late twentieth century saw an increase in the amount of non-classical music broadcast on Radio 3, and Peel praised the station's late-night programme Late Junction, and its presenter Verity Sharp, in his Radio Times column. In 1997 he co-presented a preview of Radio 3's week with Fiona Talkington, Late Junction's other main presenter in the programme's early days. After Peel's death, Fiona Talkington presented selections from the Pig's Big 78 on Late Junction in 2006, to coincide with the release of the album The Pig's Big 78s - A Beginner's Guide.
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