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Peel's Night Ride show grew out of an idea by producer John Muir for a "non-needletime" programme drawing on the BBC's store of archive recordings from around the world. This meant that not only were the shows cheaper to produce (because no royalty payments were needed), but that they also reflected the hippy era's growing interest in exotic cultures. Most of the archive material was by unknown artists and had been recorded by national radio stations or folklorists, rather than for commercial release. After Night Ride finished in September 1969, there was a positive audience response to some of the "Archive Things", as Peel would call the World Music archive material, so a selection of the most popular pieces appeared on the John Peel's Archive Things LP a year later. The BBC Archives are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, press cuttings and historic equipment. These collections are kept as both original copies, but are now in the process of being digitised, estimated to take until approximately 2015, with some collections now being uploaded onto the BBC Archives website on BBC Online for viewers to see. The archive is one of the largest broadcast archives in the world with over 12 million items.

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Peel's Night Ride show grew out of an idea by producer John Muir for a "non-needletime" programme drawing on the BBC's store of archive recordings from around the world. This meant that not only were the shows cheaper to produce (because no royalty payments were needed), but that they also reflected the hippy era's growing interest in exotic cultures. Most of the archive material was by unknown artists and had been recorded by national radio stations or folklorists, rather than for commercial release. After Night Ride finished in September 1969, there was a positive audience response to some of the "Archive Things", as Peel would call the World Music archive material, so a selection of the most popular pieces appeared on the John Peel's Archive Things LP a year later. Once Night Ride had been taken off the air, Peel no longer used BBC Archive material until the Peel's Pleasures series of the early 1980s, which included vintage spoken word clips from the archives alongside some of his favourite records and sessions. But it was not until 1998 that the BBC began to systematically preserve and archive shows by Peel and other Radio 1 DJs. As Ken Garner recounts in The Peel Sessions (pp. 184-5), the Information and Archives Unit was set up at Maida Vale, with the aim of digitising "both the Radio 1 archive and as much radio drama and comedy as possible, anticipating the planned launch of the BBC's digital radio stations 6 Music and BBC7 (now Radio 4 Extra), whose programmes would rely on the archives". Indeed, Peel sessions from the archives are frequently repeated on 6 Music, in the shows of DJs such as Marc Riley, Gideon Coe and Peel's son Tom Ravenscroft. The station has also broadcast a few complete Peel shows, while Radio 4 Extra has featured programmes paying tribute to Peel, which went out on the anniversary of his death and were complied from archive interviews and other spoken word material. The BBC Archives are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, press cuttings and historic equipment. These collections are kept as both original copies, but are now in the process of being digitised, estimated to take until approximately 2015, with some collections now being uploaded onto the BBC Archives website on BBC Online for viewers to see. The archive is one of the largest broadcast archives in the world with over 12 million items. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]. The website is [2]. See also BBC Sound Archive