06 November 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-11-06
; Comments
*Poet Anne Beresford and John Wells in studio. 
*As Ken Garner relates, Wells's critical comments about British government involvement in the civil war in Nigeria earned Peel and Radio 1 controller Robin Scott(2) "an official dressing down by Sir David Hunt, High Commissioner for Nigeria". Lord Hunt, as he was known, was a studio guest on the following week's Night Ride, on which JP had to read a scripted apology.
*Two tracks from the soundtrack of "You Are What You Eat" which took hippies as its subject, although the film was even less famous in the UK than its soundtrack LP (which received some attention as one of a batch of new CBS album releases) and may never have received an official release. The soundtrack album included John Simon's song "My Name Is Jack", which made the UK singles chart in a cover version by Manfred Mann.
*Pearls Before Swine, led by Tom Rapp (1947-2018) were one of the more obscure cult bands of the era. Peel played them less often than Bob Harris, who featured tracks by them, and from Tom Rapp's solo albums, in his early 1970s Sounds Of The Seventies shows. At the beginning of their career they had an underground image, and the track here is from their second LP for the New York label ESP-Disk, known for its avant-garde jazz releases and the early LPs by the Fugs.
*John Gourd is one of the lesser-known Night Ride session artists. He made no records under his own name but later joined Max Merritt & The Meteors, recorded with them in the mid-1970s and appeared on two of their three Peel sessions.
*The Richard Strauss theme tune from "2001: A Space Odyssey", a better-known film on general release, opens the show, but the other two film soundtrack extracts may be from Jon Curle's half of the show (see comments below).
*Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre.
== Sessions ==
*John Gourd only session. Recorded 6th November 1968.
== Tracklisting ==
*Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra = Thus Spake Zarathustra (v/a album - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Music From The Motion Picture Sound Track)) MGM MGM CS 8078
*John Gourd: A Funny Love Affair (session)
*Deviants: Slum Lord (album - Disposable) Stable SLP 7001
*Anne Beresford: Complaints From Two Voices / Tour In West Germany / Tete A Tete / Summer Funeral (poetry)
*unknown North Vietnamese artist: Lullaby (on folk instrument) (BBC Archives track)
*John Gourd: Sitting In A Den (session)
*Homesick James: Gotta Move (album - Blues On The South Side) Prestige PR 7388
*Pearls Before Swine: Images Of April (album - Balaklava) ESP Disk 1075
*John Gourd: Small Minority (session) #
*unknown Yemen artist: Music From The Yemen (Played on the UD) (BBC Archives track)
*John Gourd: Thank You Kindly (session)
*Dr. John, Night Tripper: I Walk On Gilded Splinters (album - Gris-Gris) ATCO SD 33-234
*John Gourd: Through The Leaves (session)
*Peter Yarrow: Don't Remind Me Now Of Time (v/a album - You Are What You Eat (Original Soundtrack Recording)) 
*John Simon: Painting For Freakout (v/a album - You Are What You Eat (Original Soundtrack Recording))
*Sriranjani Ragam: Classical South Indian music (played on the Gotuwadyam) (BBC Archives track)
*Lovin' Spoonful: Darling Be Home Soon (album - You're A Big Boy Now - The Original Sound Track Album) Kama Sutra @
*Elvis Presley With Jordanaires: (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (7" EP - Jailhouse Rock) RCA
*It is possible the last two tracks are from the Jon Curle section of Night Ride - both are non-current items from film soundtracks, which he rather than Peel tended to play. 
*File marked @ available on File 1
*File marked # available on File 2
== File ==
;Name
*1) 1968-11-06 John Sebastian - Darling (LP track).mp3
*2) 1969-xx-xx unknown acoustic act early 1969.mp3
;Length
*1) 2:53
*2) 2:05
;Other
*Many thanks to Colin Harper.
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2) Mooo
Category:1968
Category:Peel shows
Category:Night Ride
Category:Available online