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| | The London Line : Peel back to pure musical sensations |
 | | When John Peel died, up went the cry: "Who will champion the slightly out-there, the pretty strange and the downright unlistenable?" After a decent interlude, Radio 1 announced the answer: Huw Stephens, Ras Kwame (the self-appointed "heavyweight champion of sound") and Rob da Bank. |
 | | Peel played anything - rap, reggae, techno, earnest young men with guitars, scratchy 78s of music hall stars, and 1930s dance bands - as long as it interested him. |
 | | Of the others, Stephens is breathless and inclined to cliche (on a visit to Liverpool, everything was "legendary"), while Kwame doesn't talk much and plays records prefaced with a jingle explaining "the next record may contain strong language, so please retune if you're easily offended". |
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