Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

One of these days, I'll get Tom Ravenscroft back on the case...

Hi all,
My Covid lockdown project has been John Peel's record box. I've come pretty close to getting them all. I need I'm not Drinking More - Al Ferrier and Ticky Dopies/ I Saluti - Sipho Bhengu, and , of course, Dreamland Express - I think I saw somewhere that John Peel may have played the Dreamland Express tunes on his show. Is that true? Mark G, I see from a post about 5 years ago that you got hold of the Sipho Bhengu. I would dearly love to have copies of these tracks (and the rest of the Thala Thala compilation album)

If Mark G or anyone else can help me with these last few tunes that would be great. Does anyone else need any from the list?

Just sent you a Webmail with a link to the Al Ferrier song.

And..

city worker - thank you so much. I had kind of resigned myself to failure, or at the very least a long long wait to find that. Do you have any gaps in your collection? Who knows, I moght have something you're after. You're welocme to any music I have.

Mark G, Hi. Did you send a weblink as well? It hasn't come through to me....
I have to say, I'm amazed and delighted to get these responses.

Hi,

Not as yet, but.

Listening to Peel's intro to a 1973 Be Bop Deluxe session and it's striking how different his on-air voice is from later years. He's even more lugubrious and deep-voiced in 1973. Anyone know if the change was intentional or just something that gradually happened?

He definitely tried his hardest to distance himself from his fluty-voiced public school hippy persona of the late 60s, I didn't know he was doing it as early as '73 though.

I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.

coulda been bowie

I have a theory that when he was in the process of trying to lose his hippy trappings he based a lot of his vocal mannerisms on John Walters, his producer, they could sound very similar.