JOHN PEEL and his producer John Walters , look for bands that operate beyond the fringes of the charts. ' We do sometimes get criticised for using obscure bands,' says
John Peel , ' but many of those bands, and this is not a justification of the programme, are in the pop charts later. We also occasionally sketch the history of popular music, as well as play some old R and B and rock 'n' roll records, not forgetting a fair amount of African music and Soca.'