BBC Radio 4 – Great lives: John Lennon
A new series, “Great lives” debuts with a closer look at John Lennon. This may be old news from 2010, but it’s available now from BBC Radio 4. Journalist John Harris, author of influential...
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Paul McCartney on BBC Radio 4’s Mastertapes
McCartney on BBC 4 The recently taped interview with Paul McCartney on a special edition of BBC Radio 4’s Mastertapes will be available today on the BBC iPlayer. Paul McCartney talked to John Wilson...
Paul McCartney records for special edition of BBC Radio 4 series Mastertapes
Get your tickets for a special recording session with Sir Paul at BBC Maida Vale Studios! The radio series Mastertapes returns to BBC Radio 4 later in the year, and a special edition of...
ShowBiz TV launches with Last Lennon interview
ShowBiz TV, a brand-new U.K. entertainment channel for the discerning viewer, launches on 8th December 2015 @ 6.30pm. ShowBiz TV is a free-to-view platform offering the broadest range of exciting programming, seven days a...
Remembering Lennon
Life Magazine’s Lennon issue from 2005 Things are starting to gear up for the inevitable celebration of John Lennon’s life for the 75th anniversary of his birth, October 9. Life is bringing an updated...
A couple of “Top Of The Pops” stories
The Beatles on Top Of The Pops 1966. Photo: Ron Howard. I was re-editing and translating into Norwegian my 2014 article about The Beatles’ appearances on “Top Of The Pops” for the “Norwegian Wood” magazine,...
The Beatles at the Beeb rebroadcast
BBC Top Of The Pops 1966 The BBC has again made available their 1982 original broadcasts of the “Beatles at the Beeb” radio series. Link. Andy Peebles tells the story of the many live...
Howlett’s BBC book – new edition
Second edition of Kevin Howlett’s The Beatles – The BBC Archives Looks like the first edition of Kevin Howlett‘s 2013 book “The Beatles – The BBC Archives”, released to coincide with the second volume...
Comprehensive BBC set starts circulating
Starting to circulate among collectors is a new, free 24 disc set of Beatles material from BBC Radio. The set is designed to accompany Kevin Howlett’s book The Beatles: The BBC Archives 1962-1970. Each...
Public domain material
If we are correct in assuming that recorded material from 1964 not released prior to 2015 now has fallen into public domain, we are attempting to make some lists, based on material circulating on...
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