Mona Best and The Beatles – BBC play
This BBC play was broadcast on Radio 4 Saturday and is available for a month, also internationally. From the announcement: Before The Beatles were icons, they were just a bunch of teenagers playing in...
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1973 BBC reports on the Star-Club tape
A clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 17 September, 1973, has been made available again by the BBC Archives. The story is about the origin of the “Live! at the Star-Club...
Beatleg EP series completed
UK record label Rhythm and Blues Records just announced the fourth and final volume of their 7-inch vinyl EP series with The Beatles, “From Us To You”, with material taken from the four radio...
Beatles concert available and second recording discovered
In a new episode of the BBC radio program “Front Row”, presenter Samira takes us to the British Library, where the tape recording of the Beatles concert at Stowe School was transferred digitally to...
Recovered Ken Dodd Show and more BBC radio shows
BBC Radio has released a program that they have recovered after sixty years. The program was first broadcast on the BBC Light Program in November 1963. The program was recorded on John Lennon’s 23rd...
The Bournemouth tape
Back in 1998, a tape containing a concert recording of The Beatles performing a set at the Gaumont Theatre in Bournemouth in August 1963 was auctioned off to what was then reported as “a...
Mal Evans’ notebook on display in Liverpool museum
The Beatles Story, Liverpool, has announced an exciting new addition to its ever-growing exhibition with the inclusion of a previously unseen notebook belonging to The Beatles’ Tour Manager Mal Evans. The rare notebook, compiled...
Rejuvenated Beatles for 1996
Radio alert: Sunday the 27th of June at 21:00, BBC Radio 2 will broadcast an hour long Beatles episode in their «Summer of 96» series. Here is the description: «The Beatles – Reborn In...
John Lennon at 80 – BBC radio shows
The weekend of Lennon programming at BBC Radio 2 is over, and will be available online for a month. I addition to this, Sean Lennon’s conversations with his brother Julian, his godfather Elton John...
Lennon to interview McCartney for BBC Radio
In a worldwide exclusive for BBC Radio 2, to mark what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday, Sean Ono Lennon interviews Julian Lennon, Paul McCartney and Elton John in two-part documentary, “John Lennon...
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