31 August 1989

== Show ==
; Name
*John Peel Show
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1989-08-31
; Comments
*Pre-recorded show originally planned for broadcast the previous night, but postponed to this night due to surprise 50th birthday show.
*File 3 has a slightly edited first hour of the show with some of Peel's links removed that was broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music on 4th December 2016.
*File 4 has a slightly edited second part of the show with some of Peel's links removed that meant to be broadcast on 4th December 2016, but was later added to the BBC Radio 6 Music website.
* Around 40 minutes of the early part of this show is available on File 2, with a couple of extra tracks from the Rich 200 tape.
* This means that just 3 minutes 15 s are missing from the show.
== Sessions ==
*Where's The Beach #1, recorded 1st August 1989
== Tracklisting ==
* File 3 starts the show
* Mechanic Manyeruke of Zimbabwe: Happy Birthday, John Peel (special recording)
* Slum Turkeys: Ugly As Sin (12") Crack
*File 1 cuts in, 1:15 from end of next track
*Ultramagnetic MCs: Travelling At The Speed Of Thought (12") Next Plateau
*Nat Cooty & The Braves: Woodpecker Rock (v/a LP - Born Bad Vol Four) Born Bad
*Butthole Surfers: Booze Tobacco (10" - Widowermaker!) Blast First
*Where's The Beach: Tripping The Love Fantastic (session) # 
*Sofa Head: Have A Nice Day! (LP - Pre Marital Yodelling (1127 Walnut Ave.)) Meantime COX 015 / Double A AA 022 # 
*Aggrovators: Soldering Version (LP - Johnny In The Echo Chamber - Dubwise Selection 1975-1976) Attack # 
*Happy Mondays: W.F.L. (The Vince Clarke Mix) (12" - W.F.L.) Factory
*edit on File 3, with portion of Tuff Crew track and 6 music news inserted here
*A Witness: Raw Patch (12" - One Foot In The Groove) Ron Johnson
*edit on file 3, link removed
*Paradise: Guardian Angel (12") Blue Beat # 
*Happy Flowers: Bobby Made Me Eat A Frog (LP - Too Many Bunnies (Not Enough Mittens) (An Historical Perspective 1983-88)) Homestead # 
*SNFU: Time To Buy A Futon (LP - Better Than A Stick In The Eye) Cargo
*Where's The Beach: Suakin (session)
*File 1 cuts out after 5 mins of above
*Only Ones: Lovers Of Today (LP - Live) Mau Mau
*Telescopes: Perfect Needle (12") What Goes On
*Fake Grinderswitch intro fades in over John's link
*File 3 ends
*File 4 starts
*Tuff Crew: Mountain's World (album - Back To Wreck Shop) Warlock WAR-2712 # (Part of song was planted between the Happy Mondays and A Witness tracks on File 3 for unknown reasons, just before the 6music news. The file resumed without the JP link between Happy Mondays and A Witness)
*Doom: Means To An End / A Dream To Come True (album - Double Peel Sessions) Strange Fruit
:(JP: 'And after that we should spend five minutes in the company of Bros')
*Four Brothers: Chenjerera Ngozi (album - Bros) Cooking Vinyl
*Fred Lane: I Talk To My Haircut (album - From The One That Cut You) Shimmy Disc Europe
*Where's The Beach: Deliciously Deranged (session) #
*edit on file 4, link removed
*Nick Cave: Helpless (v/a album - The Bridge - A Tribute To Neil Young) Caroline
:(JP: 'And to end tonight's programme, an oldie from Nirvana, Paper Cuts')
*Nirvana: Paper Cuts (album - Bleach) Tupelo
*Tracks marked # available on File 2.
== File ==
;Name
*1) John Peel 19890815 - The Frank Chickens Session (rpt).mp3
* 2) 1989-08-31 Peel Show R038.mp3
* 3) John Peel 1989
* 4) The Joy of 6
*5) 020A-B4662XXXXXXX-0100M0.mp3
*6) 020A-B4662XXXXXXX-0101M0.mp3
;Length
* 1) 2:05:13 (this show starts at 01:25:07)
* 2) 0:28:07
* 3) 1:03:15 (0:00:53 - 0:58:50)
* 4) 1:03:15 (0:02:19 - 0:33:54)
* 3,4) combined, minus news and fake Grinderswitch intros - 1:25:23  (to 0:07:14 and from 0:45:59 are additional to File 1 share).
*5) 59:57
*6) 27:57
;Other
* 1) Please address all re-up requests to Peel Mailing List.
* 2) File created from R018 of Rich 200, digitised by Weatherman22
*5-6) Recordings at the British Library
;Available
* 1) Unavailable
* 2) Mooo
* 3) BBC Radio 6 Music (Part 1)
* 4) BBC Music 6 Music (Part 2)
*5-6) Sound & Moving Image Catalogue (Find Format: B4662/1)
Category:1989
Category:Peel shows
Category:Available online
Category:Rich 200
Category:6Music
Category:Lee Tapes
Category:Digitised by Weatherman22
Category:British Library