This is acid bad. Hello and welcome to ACFM the.C.F. Mylburn,

and I'm joined as usual by my very dear friend Nadia Idle.

Hello?

And my other very dear friend Jeremy Gilbert and today we've got a very special

microdose for you celebrating the winter solstice coming up tomorrow as we record and the turning of the notional year,

the new year that Europe has imposed on the rest of the world.

We thought we'd bring you our cultural, perhaps our political, highlights of the year,

frame perhaps as the things that have brought us a little bit of enjoyment, a little bit of joy

in these dark times, and in fact we're going to call it our festive 50,

although I don't think we're going to do 50 entries, in reference to, in homage to the great

festive 50 that DJ John Peel used to collect up and play.

Very important to those of a certain age.

Talking about people of a certain age, Jeremy, could you introduce who John Peel was?

John Peel was a radio DJ, a music radio DJ in Britain.

He was active from the 60s right up until, when did he retire in the late 90s, I think.

Might have even been later.

He was a sort of national institution, he was basically the one DJ who for decades was allowed to play any music he wanted on his late night radio show and so he became famous for breaking lots of bands, especially sort of punk and post-punk,

you often with live sessions on the show. A real sort of national institution, quite an idiosyncratic one, you know, with very quite specific taste.

And the festive 50 was what would happen he would get, he would play in the run up to

Christmas 50 tracks,

which were supposedly ones that had been voted on

by the listening audience.

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