The Family Way
Paul McCartney's first solo project, other than judging beauty contests, was the score for The Family Way, a 1966 comedy-drama in which a northern English community have an invasive interest in the no...
8 Apr 20241h 8min
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
We both loved Robert Zemeckis's 1978 debut feature, the story of a group of New Jersey teens trying to get into the Beatles' first Ed Sullivan Show performance in February 1964. We talk about the tech...
1 Apr 20241h 2min
Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
The 1988 documentary commissioned by Yoko Ono might have been the jumping-off point for the Lennon legacy project we know today. It shows John at his best, for the most part, and there's not much diss...
25 Mars 20241h 22min
Sam Mendes' four Beatles biopics: movie release and casting discussion
With the announcement that Sam Mendes is to direct four Beatles biopic films for release in 2027, one from each of the perspectives of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, it'...
18 Mars 202444min
Pipes of Peace video (40th anniversary Christmas special)
Merry Christmas! Here's a festive gift marking 40 years since Paul McCartney's Pipes of Peace video, which recreates the 1914 Christmas Day truce on the Western Front of World War 1. How was this vide...
25 Dec 202347min
Let it Be (part 2)
To finish off our fourth season, thrill as our takes on why George Harrison is laughing when Ringo Starr starts playing Octopus's Garden differ slightly. Later we discuss how Let it Be's pacing is aff...
18 Dec 202357min
Let it Be (part 1)
Now is the winter of our discontent: or is it? Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Let it Be is widely thought a miserable affair, documenting arguments and the breakup of the Beatles. But watching it afresh after...
11 Dec 202349min
Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle
This 2005 BBC Four documentary, narrated by Paul Morley and featuring contributions from Astrid Kirchherr, Pauline Sutcliffe, Tony Sheridan, Rod Murray and Horst Fascher, looks at the life of fifth Be...
4 Dec 20231h 9min
