Along with The Guardian, the BBC was in the vanguard of criticism of the News of the World over its phone-hacking of celebrities and others. Not only the wayward Sunday red-top was held to account. The entire Press was examined by Lord Justice Leveson, most of whose strident recommendations have been accepted by newspapers. Yet no Lord Justice Leveson has been summoned to investigate the Beeb. If there were the slightest sign of contrition on the part of the BBC, that would be some sort of recompense.
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She turned off the lights, switched on the sign and "pushed him" into the pitch black room. His reaction was typically understated. As we all now know, Peel came back from Cusco in a coffin after having a heart attack , prompting Radio 1 to clear the schedules for a whole day in tribute as a nation of music lovers mourned.
Hobbs cries as she recalls the hour the pair spent afterwards in a Russian tapas bar on Great Portland Street. Peel told her how John Lennon, at the height of his fame, used to love nothing more than riding the tube right to the end of the line. It feels like the Last Supper to me now. It was the last time I saw him. I still think it's really strange because if I'd have hung on to the plan and thought, 'no, I need to repress my feelings', he never would have seen the light and I never would have seen him that night.
I'm so glad I had the opportunity to spell it out to him one last time, in giant neon letters. She goes quiet. A lot of that was through story-telling, stories which were simultaneously disastrous and funny. Rather than sitting down and counselling you like a therapist, he would tell you a funny story.
The two had an instant connection in when Hobbs was brought into Radio 1 by the then controller Matthew Bannister as part of his purge of the Smashy and Nicey generation. They bonded over their shared love of the Scottish band Mogwai : one of Hobbs's favourite Peel stories is of him turning down an exclusive interview with Michael Stipe at Glastonbury in favour of a chat with Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite. Such a ballsy move was typical of a man who refused to sell out, she says.
All the way until he died, he operated like that and I always really admired it. He's almost been sanctified for exactly that reason. For Hobbs, family is more than just genetics. Throughout her life, from her teenage years growing up in the small town of Garstang in Lancashire, she has always sought out alternatives, or sometimes adjuncts, to her blood relatives.
But if you look beyond those traditional borders you often find something really profound and very meaningful among people who share the same set of circumstances, the same environment," she says.
Born in Preston in to a primary school teacher mother and an agricultural engineer father, Hobbs and her younger brother and sister had an unusual upbringing. Back then, Garstang was still a village, before it grew into a town as nearby Lancaster University expanded.
The family had a menagerie of animals, including a family of three donkeys that only her mother could control. Her sister was into horses; her brother was an artist. But Mary Anne's passion was always music — a problem given that her father, a tempestuous man, refused to allow music in the house. He wouldn't allow any contemporary music in the house on records.
By this time, I was in my 20s and the drip-drip exhaustion of everyday sexism had taken its toll on my patience. Their belligerence echoes numerous blog posts defending Peel on the proviso that things were different back then. I struggle to disagree when I look at Peel dressed as a schoolgirl in As they shared their memories it occurred to me that this is exactly what I was missing as a teenager: a place to hear women sharing their side of music history.
The same one who howled when his death was announced the next year. But those moments were never really about him: a stranger who I rarely think about these days. They were growing pains. Just our sense of wonder.
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