Peel greatly admired Ray Moore's broadcasting style and Liverpudlian humour, and in 1987 met Ray at the Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels, Belgium. In the Olivetti Chronicles he describes how Ray offended the Turkish representative on Radio 2 by passing comment on the villainous character of their appearance. Peel made notes about Ray when he was drafting ideas for his autobiography, reproduced as an appendix to Margrave of the Marshes. Peel wrote: