Another Texas Link
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BBC Radio 6 Music currently features a show hosted by Tom Ravenscroft (son of the late John Peel, the famous DJ, who lived for many years with his family near Stowmarket in Suffolk).
This reminded Adele Godsmark of another link between Denton, Norfolk, and Denton, Texas.
It is based on an item which featured in 2014 on the BBC Radio 4 documentary programme “Home Truths”. It concerned John, who himself compered the programme before his death in 2004.
John lived for a while in the Texas Denton and then resided near Stowmarket in his later years.
Adele came across this story on the BBC website –
HOME TRUTHS
BBC Radio One - 3rd October 2014
Nice Hat
The headgear? John Peel has the details...
"On Wednesday night over on Radio 1 we featured a band from Denton, Texas, called Lift To Experience."
"In tribute to their home-town, in which I had, years ago, attempted to sell insurance, our son Thomas and I travelled to Denton, Norfolk, where Tom took photos of me wearing my cowboy hat in front of Denton Village Hall to present to the band.
They were quite moved that we’d gone to such pointless lengths. There’s another Denton just off the Al in Cambridgeshire and we’re planning a visit there soon..."
Thank you, John. These things matter.