1. Teenage Kicks

Available for 35 days

In this honest and emotional pair of programmes Gareth Jones explores the life, work, relationships and personality of the late Mike Peters of The Alarm. Gareth was with Mike at the beginning of his career & remained close until his death in April 2025. Mike was a musician, a cancer survivor for almost 30 years, a hero to many, a Welsh icon…. and one of Gareth's dearest and longest-lasting friends. Because of this Gareth has unprecedented access to Mike’s closest friends, band members and musicians who all explain what it was like to have Mike as a friend or ally. In Part 1 Gareth talks to Mike’s friends as a child and a teenager. In Part 2 Gareth hears from Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats and U2’s The Edge