The Beatles Anthology: episodes 7 and 8 (original version)
Beatles: Endgame. We discuss how the documentary gives George Harrison and Ringo Starr the space to craft their own narratives around how they left and then returned to the band, and we go over how it...
10 Jun 20241h 38min
The Beatles Anthology: episodes 5 and 6 (original version)
On we go from Shea Stadium to Sgt Pepper. We see how George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Neil Aspinall remember the incident in Manila differently to Paul McCartney, and we put forward the idea that thes...
3 Jun 20241h 37min
The Beatles Anthology: episodes 3 and 4 (original version)
Into episodes 3 and 4, the bulk of the Beatlemania and touring years, and we get straight to the key issue: why has Paul McCartney suggested he be interviewed while steering a tugboat? We also get int...
27 Mai 20241h 29min
The Beatles Anthology: episodes 1 and 2 (original version)
In the first of our four episodes covering the 1995 documentary series, we start with some of our own memories of when it aired, when we were teenagers and Britpop had made The Beatles cool again in t...
20 Mai 20241h 36min
Let it Be (2024 restoration)
A quick bonus episode to discuss Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film, restored by Peter Jackson's team and released on Disney+ on 8 May 2024.We discussed the original film at length in our two-part episode at...
10 Mai 202431min
The Concert for Bangladesh
George Harrison of the Beatles and Ravi Shankar organised two concerts on 1 August 1971 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, as relief for refugees from East Pakistan after the Bangladesh Libera...
6 Mai 20241h 21min
Scot Williams interview: playing Pete Best in Backbeat, and directing Two Of Us, a play
Scot Williams is best known to Beatles fans for playing Pete Best in Backbeat, and In His Life: The John Lennon Story. Scot's been a successful actor, director and writer for 30 years, and having grow...
29 Apr 20241h 1min
Ringo (1978 TV movie)
Let's look at Ringo Starr's 1978 TV comedy film, written by Neal Israel and Pat Proft, both of whom would go on to make significant contributions to film comedy through the Police Academy and Naked Gu...
22 Apr 20241h 4min
