John Peel's Sounds of The Suburbs

(Channel 4 documentary series, 1999)

Eight programmes were broadcast in 1999 featuring the much loved and much missed DJ and champion of interesting new music.

The North East
Former Southdown 366 (HCD366E), a Northern Counties fully fronted Leyland Titan PD3/4 converted to a partial open top caravan:
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Lanarkshire
A Strathclyde PTE Volvo Ailsa:
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Bradford
Bus interchange views of West Yorkshire PTE, First Yorkshire and Keighley and District Leyland Atlanteans and Olympians, including West Yorkshire 6172:
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There's also a Yorkshire Traction Leyland Olympian approaching:
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VVV497L, a Bedford J2SZ/Willowbrook shelters in the undergrowth:
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Oxford
Footage of Central Oxford includes a Stagecoach Oxford Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointer in Cornmarket Street behind an Oxford Bus Volvo B10B/Plaxton Verde:
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A Stagecoach Oxford Volvo Olympian/Alexander passes close to the camera:
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A night view of another Oxford Bus Volvo B10B/Plaxton Verde on route 52:
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…..and a Stagecoach Oxford Volvo B6BLE/Alexander:
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A Stagecoach Oxford Volvo B10M/Northern Counties at Carfax:
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Another Plaxton Verde-bodied Oxford Bus Volvo B10B at the western end of Cowley Road:
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….and the slightest glimpse of an Oxford Bus MCW Metrorider:
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