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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

First blog post of many/a few/some is on the IMDb-generated misinformation, lazily swallowed by us in 2022, that Freda Kelly plays George Harrison's mum in Backbeat. It ain't so. www.beatlesfilmspod.com/blog/justice...

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Justice for Frieda Kelly | The Beatles Films Podcast

Did you think Beatles fan club president Freda Kelly had a cameo in Backbeat playing George Harrison's mum? Well, my friend, you thought wrong. And so did we.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We made a website: www.beatlesfilmspod.com A home for the episodes where you can get a bit more detail about each film and links to watch them. And with a blog which we'll definitely update more than twice a year.

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The Beatles Films Podcast

A podcast about Beatles films and TV shows: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Plus episodes on the Sam Mendes biopic films.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Now LIVE, join us for the sixth and final part of A Hard Day's Night. 🍏 Chasing! And the influence of Buster Keaton 🍏 How the concert scene shows us what the point of it all was 🍏 John's final words for Grandfather's generation

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Last up: on Monday it'll be the sixth and final part of A Hard Day's Night. Ringo and Grandfather at the police station, lots of chasing, the gig and the chopper.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Now LIVE, it's Ringo's time to shine in A Hard Day's Night part 5. 📸 Watch! As he expertly convinces you Grandfather is persuading him to leave the group 📸 Him and the boy: like hours compressed into five minutes 📸 Ringo's invisibility coat (and hat) against celebrity

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On Monday it's part 5 of A Hard Day's Night (Ringo's Theme). We'll be talking about Ringo's star turn as the deserter, and following him down the canal towpath for a while. Catch up on the whole thing so far. Southerner! open.spotify.com/episode/5PLg...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Now LIVE, it's part 4 of A Hard Day's Night. 🍏 John and Anna Quayle, and why this is a difficult scene for a non-actor to pull off 🍏 George and the tastemakers who don't realise the zeitgeist is in their office 🍏 And I Love Her is good, isn't it?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Monday then: part 4 of A Hard Day's Night. Can't Buy Me Love, John and Anna Quayle, George and the TV show execs, And I Love Her. Have a listen to parts 1-3 if you're quite prepared for that eventuality: open.spotify.com/episode/5PLg...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

OK now LIVE, part 3 of us on A Hard Day's Night. 🍏The press event: where Beatlemania persists with or without the Beatles themselves 🍏Ringo and the sound engineer ("Aren't you being rather arbitrary?") 🍏John mugging during If I Fell - what stopped him singing it straight?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

On Monday it's A Hard Day's Night part 3, where we carry on from the Beatles arriving at the theatre. So the press event, "a smokescreen of bourgeois clichés", If I Fell, and all that.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Now LIVE, in part 2 of our Hard Day's Night miniseries, it's a romp through: 🍏Class dynamics! As Ringo dances with a very posh man 🍏Generational disconnect! We contrast them in the club vs Grandfather in the casino 🍏 Magic realism! As John goes down a plughole

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On Monday it'll be part 2 of our Hard Day's Night episodes, a deep dive on a par with John's bath submarine. Schnell, Herr Kapitän!

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Now LIVE and very clean: part 1 of our episodes on A Hard Day's Night! 🍏The absurdist techniques used early on to establish the film's rules - or lack of them 🍏I Should've Known Better and the birth of the music video, maybe? 🍏They're good in it, aren't they?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

OK then. Our season finale, finally, will be AN ACTUAL HARD DAY'S ACTUAL NIGHT. We'll cover it in a few parts, because there's a lot to discuss. Expect a smokescreen of bourgeois clichés, and none of your five-bar gate jumps and over sort of stuff.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We're going to take a little break this week, so no new episode Monday. But we'll be back on Monday 20th. With something good!

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Now LIVE: Snodgrass, with John Lennon at 50, still alive but maybe not quite living. With an interview with its writer @quantick.bsky.social. 👓️ Using the old "John Genius, Paul Lightweight" trope as a narrative tool 👓️ Defeat! Failure! Thwarted ambition! 👓️ David's efforts to make the feature film

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On Monday we'll be covering Snodgrass, Ian Hart's third outing as a 50-year-old John Lennon, who as you'll remember left The Beatles in 1962. And we're delighted to announce we'll be featuring an interview with its writer @quantick.bsky.social.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Now LIVE: our episode on Raga, from Apple Films, 1971. 🧘🏽‍♂️Did Ravi Shankar dilute Indian classical music by introducing it to a bunch of Haight-Ashbury stoners? 🧘🏽‍♂️What contrasts are there between Ravi and the Maharishi's public relationship with the Beatles? 🧘🏽‍♂️Was George actually rubbish at the sitar?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

On Monday get the incense burning for Raga, from Apple Films in 1971. Join Ravi Shankar as he ponders if he's diluted his culture by introducing Indian classical music to the West. There's some George too of course. Watch it here and we'll see you then. Jai guru deva Om. youtu.be/bvwf53_ZPEM?...

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Raga (1971) ~ A Film Journey into the Soul of India - by Pndt Ravi Shankhar

This is a wonderful and informative documentary about the famous Indian classical musician Ravi Shankhar. Raga is a 1971 documentary film about the life and music of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar,…

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

LIVE: our latest episode, on 200 Motels, in which Ringo Starr plays Frank Zappa! Sort of! 🪉 Could Ringo's role have been played by anyone else? (Say, Frank Zappa?) 🪉 Maybe a bit of Zappafan-baiting: was the musicianship undermined by the lyrics? 🪉 Did John and Yoko rip off Zappa?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

On Monday it'll be The Ringo Film, which we regret to announce is Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. Yeeesh. This was a tough one. But we soldiered through it. See you then!

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Now LIVE: we talk Evolver 62, the film of Mark Lewisohn's stage show. 🍏 How significant was it that Pete Best didn't look up much when drumming? 🍏 Ringo! We get into why he was a punchline for so long. 🍏 The techniques used here and trends in documentary.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our episode on Monday will be about Mark Lewisohn and Chris Purcell's Evolver 62, a film of Mark's stage show, enhanced by a lot of location shooting. You can - and should! - rent it on Prime Video or Apple TV in the UK: www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/evo...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Now LIVE: how about one on 1972 art film Imagine, in which John and Yoko variously eat chess pieces, walk on water and play pool next to a woman up a stepladder? Key themes include "mass isolation", intimacy in celebrity, and sex as war! And why not?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Next up: on Monday it'll be Imagine (1972). (NOT Imagine: John Lennon (1988) which we've done already, keep up.) It's a mad conceptual art film! But what does it MEAN? Find out first thing Monday! In the UK it's on Prime Video at the moment, and they don't even sting you for more cash for it.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Now LIVE from the LWT Tower in 1988, it's our episode on George Harrison and Ringo Starr's interview with Michael Aspel. 🕶️ Is Ringo OK? (Spoiler: not really, but he gets better soon.) 🕶️ How uncomfortable is George about the sue me, sue you blues on show? 🕶️ Was Paul McCartney in the walrus costume?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

On Monday, get your sunglasses and your shiny grey suits on as we discuss George Harrison and Ringo Starr's 1988 appearance on Aspel & Co.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Live now: listen as we unpack 2014's Norwegian coming-of-age drama "Beatles". 🍏 Why does teenage Beatles fandom dovetail so well with this genre? 🍏 Its use of a few original Beatles songs and a cover version 🍏 How it marries up the four teenage boy characters with their respective Beatles.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

On Monday we'll be going on about the 2014 Norwegian film "Beatles", a(nother) coming-of-age drama, about teenage Beatle fans growing up in 1960s Oslo. You can rent it for a couple of quid in a couple of places. share.google/SNNgR8Hmo9kF...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Well don't do that, it's probably worth a lot of money

The flute that features on the Beatles' iconic song The Fool On The Hill is to go under the hammer.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Now live: everybody's talkin' 'bout Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC, isn't it the most? All we are saying is: 📣 Is John Lennon nervous in this performance? 📣 Yoko Ono as an "anti-rock" singer 📣 Imagine: did it escape singalong arena anthem status?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's Friday, but soon it will be Monday, because of time. And on Monday we'll be talking about the concert film Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC, which we saw in the cinema last month. Join us!

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

So it's McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass to kick us off then. 🎻Did the bass detectives actually find it or just coincide with it being found? 🎻Was the bass really rock's holy grail? 🎻Paul's Yellow Submarine socks! Imagine being able to wear socks that depict your own work.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Right then. Back at it from Monday. First up, a look at recent BBC offering McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass. Finally, a Beatles true crime documentary. Watch it on BBC iPlayer if you haven't already and we'll see you first thing Monday. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002v46m

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It is my duty to point out that going by the drapes and tiles, the café outside which Paul Mescal smoked a fag with McCartney is where the Dungeon Lane teaser video was shot. You can tell there's another version to come, as Macca is teased in it. Will Mescal be in it too? youtu.be/zckLcAuyG20?...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Now LIVE: a bonus episode about Man on the Run, the new doc about Paul McCartney in the 1970s. 🏃‍♂️It's more self-critical than we expected! 🏃‍♂️But maybe only in a way that lets him frame the narrative? 🏃‍♂️Does Sean Lennon's contribution mean some validation for Paul? open.spotify.com/episode/3PJI...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A new bonus episode! Enjoy some discussion of the wives and fifth Beatles casting news, and wild speculation on what this means for the films' creative direction. open.spotify.com/episode/5Oge...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Christmas! Have a bonus episode about War Is Over, the animated short from Dave Mullins and Sean Ono Lennon. ♟️We discuss the animation techniques ♟️Then we bang on about Toy Story 3 for a bit ♟️The song! You already knew John ripped it off, right?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Maybe a little Christmas bonus episode tomorrow. If you want it.

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cararickbass @cararickbass.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This seems Christmassy, so encore presentation of Rupert and the Frog Song's "We All Stand Togther"/Paul McCartney bass and vocal by Cara youtu.be/aRFTRkN4jCc More Beatles tinyurl.com/cararickbeatles #christmas #frog #beatles #paulmccartney

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Rupert and the Frog Song's "We All Stand Togther"/Paul McCartney bass and vocal by Cara

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Live NOW (and Then) for the last time this season, we're discussing The Beatles Anthology's new episode 9. 🫖What's the impact of having no new Paul and Ringo interviews? 🫖We could watch Paul and George figure out guitar parts all day 🫖Does this round off the story for new fans - or complicate it?

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

And the final one this season, coming on Monday, is all about the new episode number 9 (number 9...) of The Beatles Anthology. Turn up the fader on this week's, about episodes 1-8, in the meantime.

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