- In 1977 he received an Edison Award for the program Who wants to sing in the Netherlands (Wie in Nederland wil zingen), a chronicle of Dutch cabaret.
- Peekel had a cameo appearance in comics: As a colleague of Jan Tromp in album 12 of Jack, Jacky and the Juniors, and As a courtier at the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in the Spike and Suzy album De kleine postruiter.
- Han Peekel was best known as presenter of television programs as Wordt Vervolgd and TV Monument .
- He became known for his television appearances. The television program Wordt Vervolgd about comics and cartoons started in 1983 and Peekel presented the program for seventeen years.
- Since 2009 he was the presenter of TV Monument, a documentary TV series about Dutch TV makers.
- He was a radio presenter at Radio Veronica where he presented a program about chansons from September 1963 to January 1964.
- Peekel also produced television shows and wrote books.
- He was a Dutch television producer, writer, radio- and television presenter.
- Peekel started in the 1960s as a singer of Dutch songs and was presenter at Radio Veronica.
- On 18 December 2012 Peekel became Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his services to television, radio and cabaret. He received the award from the mayor of Hilversum Pieter Broertjes.
- Peekel started his career in the early sixties as a singer of Dutch chansons, the so-called listening songs (luisterliedjes).
- In 2017 he made the CD "You wore my name" as a tribute to his wife Theya Peekel-Schilt, who died in 2016.
- He became known in the Netherlands for his work for television; he has produced more than 4000 programs.
- After Peekel was sentenced by the court in 1991 to community service and a fine for tax fraud, he was no longer allowed to present "Word Prosecuted" by the AVRO.
- Peekel also collaborated with Wouter Strips and Joop Wiggers on a TV adaptation of Jan Kruis' Jack, Jacky and the Juniors.
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