Has anyone ever seen this site? An absoloute behemoth of an archive - documenting all of John Peel's shows throughout his BBC career with really detailed artist pages.

https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Pulp

On the Pulp page, not only does it document the background relationship with band and DJ and the sessions info that we know already (you can also see where Pulp placed in his year-end charts) but most impressively, it also documents every single time he played Pulp on his show and when, and there's audio-files for most of them too!

Unfortunately a lot of the audio seem restricted but I found the odd one where anyone can listen (including Blue Glow with introduction in January 1986!). You can tell he was loved-up with Pulp by late 1995 and making-up for all that lost time (Intro and HnH material also got a decent number of spins). Pulp were played regularly at that point - he even gave Ansaphone an airing when Disco 2000 came out! Nick and Jarvis of course had been to his house a couple of months prior to preview Different Class.

It's really interesting looking at the Pulp songs he played - once he was reacquainted with them in 1993, the only era he seemed a bit cold on was This Is Hardcore. I hadn't realised that he had previewed practically all of We Love Life a few weeks before it came out (any "older" members remember that?), even giving Bob Lind two plays, good man. And his last ever play of a Pulp song was Little Girl which is kind of sweet really - edit, it seems that was  on a tribute show just after he passed.

I assume Stephen got his Pulp Portfolio radio-play introductions/(ex-troductions?) from this but Weej, if you haven't seen it before - this looks right up your street...