Hi Guest Rebecca - why don't you PM me... we must be related! John Peel was my great, great, great, great, great uncle. My grandmother was a Peel. Her mother apparently always used to complain "Ah divvent knaw why they aal gan on aboot John Peel - he was nobbut an auld drunkard!"
I've also written an article and academic paper about him and can email if you let me know your address.