Listening to Andy Kershaw tell how he met John recently and how the move of his late night show to the early hours (1am i think he said)was taking its toll on john, really shocked me. When you hear some of the absolute 'pop' shite (in my opinion) that has been spewed out by national radio (radion 1 in particular) over the years by some so-called DJ's who were not fit to be allowed near a turntable; and you consider how they've treated people like John Peel (& kershaw himself) i.e sidelining them to the remote hours or another station is a shocking disgrace.

Peel did more for the furtherence of quality comtempory (& our traditional) music over the last 40 years than anyone else in the medial.

Ok so they carried on employing him and John being loyal was happy to stay on but they could have treated him better at the latter end of his career i reckon. But p'raps i'm being naive to expect that this megga 'conservative', music industry/money driven media of ours could ever change. After all look how it treats our traditional music.