| abstract | - (News from Xmas day 2009 – crazed woman attacks Pope, Queen’s Speech and Scottish Football. Think Peel would have appreciated that eclectic mix.) Welcome back from “Tom Ravenscroft – one of his four horrid children”
* Belle and Sebastian: The Magic Of A Kind Word (session #1, first TX 19 June 2001) (Stuart Murdoch – knew the significance of having done a Peel session.) (Mogwai's Stuart Braitwaite explains doing a session at the Hippodrome.)
* Mogwai: Superheroes Of BMX (session #1, first TX 11 January 1997) (Bill Aitken (engineer) reminisces about his own session in 1975.)
* Bill Aitken: Sequel (session #1, first TX 08 December 1975) (APB talk about the session engineers/producers importance and Mark Radcliffe tells how he persuaded Jesus & Mary Chain to lay off the feedback and regrets it to this day.)
* Jesus & Mary Chain: Never Understand (session #1, first TX 31 October 1984]]) (Rab Noakes explains how the session worked for him.)
* Rab Noakes: Steppin' Stone (session #4, first TX 12 June 1975) (Jim Kerr on producers – Dale "Buffin" Griffin [does this solve the mystery of “U” for Unknown for the producer of the Simple Minds 2nd session record in the bible of Ken?]) (Justin Currie of Del Amitri discusses the session process. Dale Griffin again.)
* del Amitri: Crows In The Wheat Field (session #1, first TX 24 April 1984) (JP outro: “That is excellent, very good indeed.” Justin Currie: “One of the proudest moments in my life!”) (Graham Kemp of (Urusei Yatsura): “Peel session means you are a proper band.”) (Emma Pollock of The Delgados describes the enthusiasm Peel had for the band.)
* The Delgados: Pull The Wires From The Wall (16/7/97 #3) (Phil from The Stretchheads - session story and what sounds a pretty wild time in their session.) (Talking about how important getting paid was: - Stuart from Mogwai - James from Urusei Yatsura) (Ken again! The importance of the session to musical history and youth culture.) (Justin Currie of del Amitri: “John Peel and John Walters the greatest A&R people in the world.”) (Clare Grogan: The "pixie of pop" (who was "probably a bit of a prat”) talks about Peel singing on their session: “He probably regretted it for the rest of his life, but he did it! ... I feel hugely proud … when people criticise Altered Images for being a bit fluffy it doesn’t matter because you know, John Peel liked us and he knew.”)
* Altered Images: Song Sung Blue (with Peel singing (!) and whistling (?) 22/9/81) (Unidentified Camera Obscura spokesperson – Burns Night at Peel Acres. Sessions helped band keep going.)
* Camera Obscura: Red Red Rose (session #5, first TX 22 January 2004) (AC Acoustics – Paul Campion, band stayed together for their last Peel session.)
* AC Acoustics: unidentifed track (session #5, first TX 21 May 2002) (Ken on Ivor Cutler (sessions 1969-1998) - carried on doing what he did and did it well.)
* Ivor Cutler: In My Room There Sits a Box (session #1, 07 May 1969) (Stuart from the Delgados - story about a night out in Motherwell during filming of Sounds Of The Suburbs, doing a pub quiz together (Peel rubbish in music round!) - “an easy conversationalist.”) (Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai – story about live session at Maida Vale on night of Celtic losing UEFA Cup final and Peel.)
* Mogwai: Helicon 1 (session #5, live on 21 May 2003) (Peel Acres as recording set up – Stuart from Belle & Sebastian explains how it works.)
* Belle & Sebastian: (My Girl's Got) Miraculous Techniques (Peel Acres set was 25 July 2002, but Ken's book lists this track as part of session #1 on 19 August 2001) (Stuart McIntyre from ballboy)
* ballboy & Laura Cantrell: I Lost You But I Found Country Music (session #5, live from Peel Acres 23 December 2003) (Last session was a couple of days after he died. The session went ahead – a strange but sad occasion: “The sense you were singing these songs and he wasn’t going to hear them… a strange type of melancholy … very sad.) (Ken on what we have lost … again very sad.) (Ends with Stuart of Belle and Sebastian talking about Christmas session (session #3, live from Maida Vale 18 December 2002)
* Belle & Sebastian and others: 12 Days Of Christmas - collapses into disorder (John Peel: “A deeply moving experience.”)
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