So revered in the UK that he made the top 50 in a BBC poll of ‘Greatest Britons of all time,’ John Peel (1939-2004) shaped popular culture in ways that Americans may never know or understand. As a pirate radio deejay, a band manager, promoter and cheerleader, print journalist, BBC radio presenter, arranger of recording sessions, record label owner and all-around presence, Peel held the door for the progressive and idiosyncratic to enter rock & roll, be it psychedelia, garage rock, punk, prog rock, folk-rock, industrial, and post-rock. Richie Unterberger dug deep into the archives and talked to people who knew him to produce this captivating portrait of John Peel.
The scripts would advise the public to use car radios or battery-powered devices to tune into to emergency BBC broadcasts and would seek to keep the public informed in the event of a major loss of power
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The Prime Minister stressed there was a good supply of energy in the UK as she was pressed on her pledge - made during the Tory leadership campaign - that there would be no energy rationing in Britain.
"That moment when Huw Edwards made that historic announcement at 6.30pm on the BBC about the Queen was the sad end of an era in my own life in London."