Bhundu Boys

For the younger crowd, Blue Peter, uh, was on at five past five with Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding, and John Leslie.

That edition was dancing to the Harare beat with Zimbabwean bands like the Bhundu Boys and Oliver Mtukudzi, so it was a proper music feature rather than the usual, uh, make-and-do.

Blue Peter doing Zimbabwean guitar bands on a Monday tea time is very late '80s, Lee, and it beats another sticky-back plastic spaceship.

I'd have been glued to that over the news any day of the week.

'Cause, 'cause again, you know, the New Romantic thing, synth-pop, you know, I couldn't bear it.

But then I was an indie pop kid who embraced John Peel, and, and sort of he was my, "Right, if John Peel played it, it's gonna be okay." So I got into reggae and African music with the Bundu Boys, and early rap music with Public Enemy, and even LL Cool J, because John Peel played it.

So you felt like, you know, "Oh, yeah, this must be okay.

John's, John's given it his blessing." So ...