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with Peter Mayne

including this week's Top 40 discs-your first chance to hear the new chart.

at 6.0 Peter reviews the new Top 40 singles chart. including at 5.30 Newsbeat with Peter Mayne

with Wheels
This week SUSIE goes behind the scenes of the Radio 1 Roadshow;
RICHARD NICHOLS. editor of Custom Car, looks at a character car of our time; and Grand Prix driver Nigel Mansell is the studio guest.
Producer JOHN SPARROW

Musicians, music journalists and fellow DJs have all proclaimed John Peel as a major musical influence.
Somewhat modestly, the man in question doesn't really think of himself in such a role and claims, 'I don't sit back over a glass of port and think. Music... I just seem to be doing something that no one else seems to do'.
Although that fact strikes him as rather odd. it's no quirk of fate that over the years hundreds of aspiring bands have sent their work to him - on one particular day he received 53 tapes - seeing Peel as their gateway to wider recognition.