Peel described Laurie Self as a friend and neighbour. On the programme of 20 October 1991, he suggests that listeners should visit an exhibition of the artists's work in Ipswich. Later, he arranged for pictures of Self's work to be displayed in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall when he was curating the 1998 Meltdown arts festival. Peel paid tribute to the artist after his death in the Radio Times in an article (later reprinted in the Olivetti Chronicles, Corgi edition, p240) under the title of New Year's Eve: