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Global Hit -- John Peel [audio 8min]

The late British disc jockey John Peel first attracted a British audience as a DJ on the pirate radio station Radio London. When such rouge stations were outlawed in 1967, Peel made a final broadcast of his program, called "The Perfumed Garden." Anchor Ken Bader speaks with BBC producers Hermeet Chadha and Tom Ravenscroft, who've reconstructed that final broadcast.
Read entire article at BBC-PRI-WGBH "The World"