As reported in February, the initial run of releases from the late DJ John Peel's legendary record collection are now available to hear online at the Space. There, you can click around an interactive photograph of Peel's office, and discover photos, home videos, excerpts of old radio shows, and access the motherlode itself.
Tom Barker, director of the John Peel Centre, wrote a blogpost last week in which he described how Peel's collection contains "over 26,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and many thousands of CDs." In order to process the sheer scale of his hoardings, the Centre decided that "the best way to start the process was to release the details of the first 100 albums, listed alphabetically, from each letter of the alphabet each week."
This week, the first 100 As are up for delving, spanning the likes of A.R. Kane's 69, ABBA's Voulez Vous, and Celtic folk singer Mike Absalom's wonderfully named Save the Last Gherkin for Me. That 1969 album is the subject of a short documentary on the site: One artist per dispatch will be singled out for the documentary treatment, as selected by Peel's widow, Sheila Ravenscroft. You might want to take the week off work to get properly stuck in.
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