BBC Radio 6 Music is to broadcast a special radio show to mark what would have been John Peel’s 75th birthday.

To celebrate this and to mark the 10th Anniversary of his passing, BBC Radio 6 Music will broadcast the programme on the 31^st August, honouring the former Radio 1 presenter. “John Peel Remembered” will feature contributions from 6 Music presenters from Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne, Annie Nightingale and Mary Anne Hobbs, with a mixture of Peel sessions plus extracts from his original radio shows. The show will air from 1pm till 2pm on 31st August 2014.

The great institution that is the BBC has richly honoured and paid tribute to the institution that was John Peel in the years since his death, including naming Egton Wing in Broadcasting House after him, naming a lecture and award after him, and holding John Peel Days on BBC Radio 1. And of course Michael and Emily Eavis named the John Peel stage in his memory at the Glastonbury Festival, where John Peel was a timeless fixture and fitting in his mud splattered wellies!!

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