15 October 1979

== Show ==
; Name
*John Peel Show
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1979-10-15
; Comments
*Seven tracks to be played from the Specials debut LP, but only one is on the available recording, which only has about half an hour of the show.
*Various comments related to Peel’s weekend Shrewsbury school reunion.
== Sessions ==
*Teardrop Explodes #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1979-10-02. Released on Peel Sessions Plus (Mercury, 2007)
*XTC #4 First broadcast. Recorded 1979-10-08. All tracks except for "Scissor Man" available on "Drums And Wireless - BBC Radio Sessions 77 - 89 " (1994, CD, Nighttracks) and on "Transistors Blast" (1998, 4 CD, TVT Records). "Scissor Man" first appeared in 1980 on the doublepack edition of the single "Towers of London" and was later re-released on "Rag & Bone Buffet" (1990, Virgin).
== Tracklisting ==
(Tape cuts in)
*Specials: Monkey Man (LP – The Specials) 2 Tone (back announced)
:(JP: “I was very conscious when I started just a moment or so ago that a lot of the people I met over the weekend in Shrewsbury would be listening to the programme, probably for the first time ever: ‘I wonder what that Ravenscroft sounds like on the radio!’ Well, they’ll have probably switched off by now, I would imagine.”)
*Punishment Of Luxury: British Baboon (LP – Laughing Academy) United Artists
*Adverts: The Adverts (LP – Cast Of Thousands) RCA Victor
*Teardrop Explodes: Chance (session)
*Purple Hipsters: Howzyasistah (7") Black Griffin
:(JP reads requests from his weekend in Shrewsbury for Led Zeppelin and Genesis : “I hope this suffices instead.”)
*Status Quo: Who Asked You (LP – Whatever You Want) Vertigo
*Matumbi: Pretender (single – Point Of View) Matumbi
*Outcasts: One Day (LP – Subconscious Over You) Good Vibrations
*XTC: Roads Girdle The World (session)
(cuts out)
== File ==
;Name
*1979-10-15 (Teardrop Explodes, XTC)
;Length
*32.32
;Other
*
*File created from T163 of 400 Box.
;Available
*
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