John Peel - 28th May 1981

Featuring sessions from The Fire Engines and The Cure.

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Modernaires: We Did It Again (Illuminated)

Echo And The Bunnymen - Over The Wall (Korova)

The Fire Engines - Candy Skin (Session)

UB40 - Sardonicus (DEP International)

Between Pictures - Birthday Card (Applause)

The Jam - Disguises (Polydor)

The Cure - All Cats Are Grey (Session)

June Tabor - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Topic)

Tony Tuff - Lots Of Loving (Black And White)

The Fire Engines - Untitled (Session)

The Meteors - Radioactive Kid (Chiswick)

Peter Hammill - My Experience (Virgin)

Quads - Gotta Get A Job (Big Bear)

Procol Harum - Homburg (Regal Zonophone)

Talisman - Free Speech (Recreational)

The Cure - Primary (Session)

JC's Mainmen - Ear Bending (Fresh)

The Fire Engines - [We Don't Need This] Fascist Groove Thang (session)

Bill Nelson - Youth Of Nation On Fire (Mercury)

The Cure - Forever (Session)

John Peel - 16th May 1979

Featuring sessions from The Lurkers and The Cure.

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Devo - The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize (Virgin)

The Damned: Love Song (Chiswick)

The Lurkers - Whatever Happened To Mary (Session)

John Cooper Clarke - Valley Of Lost Women (CBS)

The Cure - Accuracy (Session)

Thin Lizzy - Get Out Of Here (Vertigo)

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Time Come (Island)

Peter Green - Slabo Day (PVK)

The Zeros - What's Wrong With Pop Group (ROK)

The Pop Group - The Boys From Brazil (Radar)

The Lurkers - Take Me Back To Babylon (Session)

Nigger Kojak - Massacre (Belmont)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Accidents Will Happen (Radar)

The Cure - Subway Song (Session)

Jerry Lee Lewis - Number One Lovin' Man (Elektra)

Nina Hagen Band - Superboy (CBS)

Michael Chapman: Gamblers On The Shoreline (Criminal)

Magazine - Feed The Enemy (Virgin)

The Specials - Gangsters (Two-Tone)

The Lurkers - Out In The Dark (Session)

Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (EMI)

The Cure: Plastic Passion (Session)

Brian James - Ain't That A Shame (BJ)

They Must Be Russians - Psycho Analysis (Gemi)

Geraint Watkins And The Dominators - In The Night (Vertigo)

The Undertones - Billy's Third (Sire)

The Lurkers - See The World (Session)

Hugh Mundell - That [Little] Short Man (Rockers)

The Shapes - Wot's For Lunch Mum? [Not Beans Again!] (Sofa)

The Cure - Grinding Halt (Session)

The Cure - Desperate Journalist In Ongoing Meaningful Review Situation (Session)

The Skids - Masquerade (Virgin)

Iggy Pop - Don't Look Down (Arista)

Howlin' Wolf: Going Down Slow (Pye International)

John Peel - 7th March 1979

Featuring sessions from Penetration and The Cure.

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Sid Vicious - Something Else (Virgin)

Fashion - Steady Eddie (Faulty Products)

The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night (Session)

Rumour - Emotional Traffic (Stiff)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (Polydor)

Bob Dylan - George Jackson (CBS)

Penetration - Coming Up For Air (Session)

Korgis - Cold Tea (Rialto)

Revolutionaries - This Old Man (Germaine)

Victimise - High Rising Failure (Rough Trade)

The Skids - Dossier [Of Fallibility] (Virgin)

The Cure - Killing An Arab (Session)

Frankie Lee Sims - Hey Little Girl (Ace)

Penetration - Last Saving Grace (Session)

Tuxedo Moon - Nite And Day

Bill Nelson - Don't Touch Me (Harvest)

Dr Feelgood - Roxette (UA)

The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil (Radar)

Roger Chapman - Moths To A Flame (Arista)

The Cure - Fire In Cairo (Session)

Misty In Roots - How Long Jah

John Peel - 2nd February 1981

Featuring sessions from 21 Guns and The Cure.

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Point Fives - Stabbed (White Elephant)

Partizans - Partizans (A-Noys)

21 Guns - 21 Guns (Session)

The Mekons - I'm So Happy (Red Rhino)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Strict Time (F-Beat)

Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues (Vocalion)

The Cure - All Cats Are Grey (Session)

Duran Duran - Planet Earth (EMI)

Kick Partners - Steel Workers (Revolution)

Cuddly Toys - Astral Joe (Fresh)

Penetration - What's Going On (Virgin)

21 Guns - Dark Night (Session)

Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim (Harvest)

Red Noise - Art / Empire / Industry (Harvest)

Interview with Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson - Room With Brittle Views (Les Disques Du Crépuscule)

The Cure: Forever (Session)

The Undertones - What's With Terry? (Sire)
The Undertones - More Songs About Chocolate And Girls)

Exploding Seagulls - Ring Pull / Take 5 (White Elephant)

New Age Steppers - Crazy Dreams And High Ideals (On-U Sound)

Misty In Roots - See Them Ah Come (People Unite)

The Cure: Holy Hour (Session)

The Fall - Various Times (Step-Forward)

John Peel - 10th January 1979

Featuring sessions from The Cure and Elvis Costello.

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Jerry Lee Lewis - Hello Josephine (Sun)

Mahotella Queens - Igula Lamasi (Virgin)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Radio Radio (Session)

J Geils Band - I Could Hurt You (Session)

The Parrots - Larger Than Life (Attrix)

The Cure - Fire In Cairo (Session)

George Perkins And The Silver Stars - Cryin' In The Streets (Silver Fox)

The Shirkers - Drunk And Disorderly (Limp)

Michael Black - Out Of Love (Flagman)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (Session)

Generation X - King Rocker (Chrysalis)

Throbbing Gristle - Dead On Arrival (Industrial Records)

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (Session)

The Boys - I Don't Care (Nems)

Kleenex - Hedi's Head (Rough Trade)

Gary Moore - Flight Of The Snow Goose (EMI)

The Residents - Birthday Boy (Ralph Records)

Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (Vogue Coral)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Stranger In The House (Session)

The Cure - 10.15 Saturday Night (Session)

Winston Edwards And Blackbeard - Downing Street Rock (Studio 16)

Pathetix - Aleister Crowley (No Records)

Public Image Limited - Attack (Virgin)

O Level - Everybody's On Revolver Tonight (Kings Road Records)

John Peel - 10th March 1980

Featuring sessions from The Cure and The Undertones.

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The Jam - The Dreams Of Children (Polydor)

Beez - Backstreet Love (Edible)

The Cure - A Forest (Session)

John Fiddler - Look Don't Touch (Harvest)

The Undertones - Girls That Don't Talk (Session)
Augustus Pablo - DJ Cut (Greensleeves)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House (Polydor)
Glueams - Mental (Punk Rules Clan)
Mental As Anything - Empty Hearts/Open Wounds (Virgin)
The Rolling Stones - Empty Heart (Decca)
Most - Carefree
The Cure - 17 Seconds (Session)
Gang Of Four - It's Her Factory (EMI)
Ludus - Sightseeing (New Hormones)
The Undertones - Tearproof (Session)
Nina Hagen Band - African Reggae (CBS)
Jeff Hill Band - Something's Wrong With My Baby (Balloon)
Scoop - You Can Do It (Sharp)
Cockney Rejects - Headbanger (EMI)
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Gate Walks To Board
The Cure - Play For Today (Session)
Delta 5 - You (Rough Trade)
Earl Sixteen/Mikey Dread - African Tribesman/Butter 'Gainst Sun (Sufferers Heights)
The Moderates - Suntan (Open Eye)
The Undertones - What's Wrong With Terry (Session)

John Peel - 22nd February 1982

Featuring sessions from Action Pact and The Cure.

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The Nightingales - Use Your Loaf (Cherry Red)
TV21 - All Join Hands (Decca)
Action Pact - People (Session)
The Lone Ranger - Trod Along (Jah Guidance)
Fun Boy Three with Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It (Chrysalis)
The Cure - A Hundred Years (Session)
Action Pact - Cowslick Blues (Session)
Colin Newman - 123 Beep Beep (4AD)
Gene Vincent - B I Bickey Bi, Bo Bo Boo (Capitol)
The Higsons - Conspiracy (Waap)
Action Pact - Suicide Bag (Session)
Oliver Mtukudzi And The Black Spirits - Mdodiniko
The Only Ones - Fools (CBS)
Ranking Toyan - Pants And Blouses (Grim Ben)
The Cure - Siamese Twins (Session)
Mark, James And Julie - If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked A Cake (Rational)
Scars - Fear Of The Dark (Charisma)
Action Pact - Losers (Session)
Icarus - Aname Culture That
Van Morrison - Dweller On The Threshold (Mercury)
Persian Rugs - Burning Passion Pain (Phoenix)
The Cure - Figurehead (Session)
Questions - Work And Play (Respond)
Action Pact - Mindless Aggression (Session)
Confusional Quartet - Dlin Dlon Cowboy (Italian Records)