Son of John Peel to host radio show for Channel 4
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Your support makes all the difference.The son of the legendary DJ John Peel is following him on to the airwaves.
Tom Ravenscroft is to host his own weekly show on Channel 4 Radio, from 24 August. SlashMusic will feature unsigned talent from across the UK.
The show will be the first radio job for Ravenscroft, 26, a music journalist. His father died in October 2004 at the age of 65.
Peel, Radio 1's longest-serving DJ and the host of Radio 4's Home Truths, championed unknown bands. He introduced his son to music from an early age - at 11 he saw Nirvana play the Reading Festival. Last year Ravenscroft made John Peel's Record Box, a documentary about his father's favourite songs.
"I'm very excited about SlashMusic and delighted that Channel 4 Radio has given me the opportunity to spread my passion for music by allowing me to create the programme that I want," said Ravenscroft.
More than 12,000 unsigned acts have uploaded tracks on to the Channel 4 website and Ravenscroft will select the best.
"The aim of SlashMusic is to give exposure to the vast amount of fantastic music out there that is relatively unknown - a subject close to my heart," he said.
"I hope that the show will offer something different to the music-loving audience and that people will get as much pleasure from listening as we get from making the programme."
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