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| rdfs:comment | - Zepheniah is dyslexic and left school at the age of thirteen, unable to read or write. He learnt to read and write as an adult, after he had already been hailed as an exciting young "writer" for his performance poetry.
- Peel invited Zephaniah in 1983 to do a session for his show doing three poetry's (Problems, I Christmas Poem and Uganda's What I Mean) in a dub ranting style and visited Benjamin Zephaniah's house to interview him for the Offspring radio programme in 1995, where according to Sheila on Margrave Of The Marshes, he was supposed to talk to him about infertility after Zephaniah wrote a piece about his experience of it, but due to his shyness, Peel did not raise the topic and instead talked to him about martial arts, until he was compelled to talk about it before he left Zephaniah's house.
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| abstract | - Zepheniah is dyslexic and left school at the age of thirteen, unable to read or write. He learnt to read and write as an adult, after he had already been hailed as an exciting young "writer" for his performance poetry.
- Peel invited Zephaniah in 1983 to do a session for his show doing three poetry's (Problems, I Christmas Poem and Uganda's What I Mean) in a dub ranting style and visited Benjamin Zephaniah's house to interview him for the Offspring radio programme in 1995, where according to Sheila on Margrave Of The Marshes, he was supposed to talk to him about infertility after Zephaniah wrote a piece about his experience of it, but due to his shyness, Peel did not raise the topic and instead talked to him about martial arts, until he was compelled to talk about it before he left Zephaniah's house. Zephaniah paid tribute to Peel on John Peel Tribute, a BBC2 programme broadcast one week after his death in 2004 and mentioned on the programme that he first heard Misty In Roots on Peel's show: 'He didn't do any build up, like "now some reggae!" He just introduced it just like any other record on his show: "And this is Misty In Roots..." I thought, wow, white people like our music!'.A year after Peel's death, listeners on BBC Radio One voted Zephaniah's Rong Radio Station track at number 47 in the 2005 Festive Fifty.
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