21 December 1988

== Show ==
; Name
*John Peel Show
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1988-12-21
; Comments
*The second part of the 1988 Festive Fifty, following best of the year session repeats.
*A mistake in the previous night's programme means that JP has to play the number 41 that wasn't played then.
*The occurrence of a tragedy in the news leads to a paucity of links in the first part of the show.
*JP (at beginning of show, following news bulletin featuring Lockerbie plane crash): "It seems almost obscene to follow a news bulletin like that with two hours of trivial nonsense..."
== Sessions ==
*Wedding Present, #5 (Ukrainian Session #2) (repeat). Recorded 1988-03-15. Available on The Complete Peel Sessions (Castle).
*Primitives, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1988-04-17. No known commercial release.
*Benny Profane, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1988-05-22. No known commercial release.
*Butthole Surfers, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1988-09-20. No known commercial release.
*Siddeleys, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1988-09-13. Available on Slum Clearance (Clarendon).
*Shalawambe, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1988-08-23. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*Wedding Present: 'Minnooli Dnee' (Peel Session)
*Primitives: 'Things Get In Your Way' (Peel Session)
*Benny Profane: 'Everything' (Peel Session)
*(JP reads travel unit message related to Lockerbie bombing)
*Butthole Surfers: 'Blind Man' (Peel Session)
*Siddeleys: 'Something Almost Brilliant Happened Last Night' (Peel Session)
*Shalawambe: 'Mulemena' (Peel Session)
*Primitives: 'Keep Me In Mind' (Peel Session)
*File e begins
*(trailer for Radio 1 Christmas concerts)
*Wedding Present: 'Vasya Vasil'ok' (Peel Session)
*Benny Profane: 'Quick Draw McGraw Meets Dead Eye Dick' (Peel Session)
*Siddeleys: 'You Get What You Deserve' (Peel Session)
*Butthole Surfers: 'EDG' (Peel Session)
*(travel unit message again)
*Shalawambe: 'Mulamu' (Peel Session)
*File e cuts out
*Wedding Present: 'Zamudav Didochok' (Peel Session)
*Primitives: 'Way Behind Me' (Peel Session)
*Benny Profane: 'Beam Me Up' (Peel Session)
*Butthole Surfers: 'Neee Neee' (Peel Session)
*(news)
*Wedding Present: 'Verkhovyna' (Peel Session)
=== 1988 Festive Fifty: Numbers 41-32===
*41: Loop, 'Collision (12 inch)' (Chapter 22)
*40: Fall, 'Guest Informant (LP-The Frenz Experiment)' (Beggars Banquet)
*(JP: 'Should have been higher, of course.')
*39: Pixies: 'River Euphrates (CDS-Gigantic)' (4AD)
*38: McCarthy: 'Should The Bible Be Banned (12 inch)' (September)
*(JP: 'I was very very pleased to see this at number 37. Once again, I felt it should have been higher, but that's just me own personal view, and one of few sessions that got in.')
*37: Shalawambe, 'Samora Machel' (Peel Session)
*(JP: 'First Zambian band to make the Festive Fifty. Of course, whenever I say anything absolute like that, there's always somebody on the phone straight away saying, "No, you're wrong about that, in fact"'.)
*36: Fall, 'Jerusalem (LP-I Am Kurious Oranj)' (Beggars Banquet)
*(JP: 'While that was going on, I took a phone call from somebody saying would I stop playing that and play something by Cliff Richard? Well, so far, there's been none of Cliff's records in the Festive Fifty, but who can tell what is to come?')
*File d cuts in during above track
*35: Stump, 'Charlton Heston (LP-A Fierce Pancake)' (Ensign)
*(JP: 'Never an especial favourite of mine, but one that you cared for enough to put it in at 35 in the Festive Fifty.')
*34: Pooh Sticks: 'On Tape (LP-Alan McGee)' (Fierce)
*33: James: 'What For (LP-Strip-mine)' (Blanco Y Negro/Sire)
*32: Spit, 'Road Pizza (12 inch)' (Nailed To Sound)
*(JP: 'I think I might well have been tempted to vote for that meself.')
*(JP: 'Thanks very much for listening, and have a good Christmas weekend. Goodnight.')
== File ==
;Name
*a) 1988-12-21 a JP881221a.mp3
*b) 1988-12-21 a JP881221a.mp3
*c) JP19881221.mp3
*d) John Peel F50 21.12.88 last 20 minutes.mp3
*e) John Peel 27th December 1988
;Length
*a) 01:06:49 / (truncated version 1:01:56)
*b) 00:46:45 / (truncated version 44:21)
*c) 01:58:41 
*d) 01:05:53 (to 20:08) (continues with news and Nicky Campbell
*e) 01:11:13 (to 17:36)
;Other
*a) and b) Slightly brittle quality evident on this recording.
*c) Thanks to Ray b for this complete recording
*d) Many thanks to Charlie D
*e) Many thanks to gdgdb. 
*A high quality version of the chart rundown from #40-#32 is available in the 'Festive 50s' folder of IAP's Tapes, but is mislabelled (it can be found in the sub-folder '1987' and file name F50_1987_4031).
;Available
*a) b) No longer available
*c) Mediafire
*c) Mooo 
*d) Mooo
*e) Youtube
Category:1988
Category:Peel shows
Category:Available online
Category:Festive Fifty