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Peel to receive Honorary Degree

Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel is to receive an Honorary Doctorate from an English University.

The University of Bradford will bestow a Doctor of Letters degree on him at a ceremony on December 7.

The honour recognises his outstanding contribution to the field of popular music and his his 35-year broadcasting career.

This is Peel's second academic award, having received a Doctor Of Music degree from Liverpool University.

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