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Links 27 February 2003
Three shows a week of the best music radio show in the world. I want to be John Peel when I grow up.
The range of styles on this show is astonishing. Not all the artists sound good, but their names usually do - where else can you hear music by Monster Killed by Laser, When Ghosts Use Knives, or Cat On Form?
You can even play the John Peel game while you listen.
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More great BBC online music shows — Bennettarium
31 August 2006
9:51 pm
[...] Speaking of the best, I have to mention the name that is missing from my list. John Peel was the best thing on the radio. He played the most eclectic mix of music you could ever hear, and had been doing it since before I was born. He died last year. I always used to think that I’d like to be John Peel when I grow up. [...]
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4 July 2007
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[...] Saint Etienne, with a nod to Austin Powers. But if you really want to know what they sound like, as John Peel used to say, you’ll just have to listen to the [...]
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6 July 2008
10:06 pm
[...] you could call them a guitar-based pop/rock group, or even a “popular beat combo” (as John Peel used to say). But that would just be lazy pigeonholing, so if you pretend you didn’t read [...]
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