Skues' playing of old 78s on his show for BBC local radio in eastern England was mentioned approvingly on-air by Peel and also cited by him as an inspiration for the Peelenium and the subsequent Pig's Big 78 . In 1994, Skues, who also worked for Radio Caroline in the 1960s, published Pop Went the Pirates: An Illustrated History Of Pirate Radio. (The DJ portraits in the book included a bizarre and whimsical "biography" of Peel, possibly written by JP himself in 1967.) A revised edition appeared in 2009. Similar opinions can be heard being given on 20 August 2002.