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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three versions of the gig, a disc each. Afternoon, evening, hybrid. Sure, why not? Wouldn't pay for it myself but I do like it when they don't hold anything back.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Us on Power to the People: www.beatlesfilmspod.com/podcast-epis...

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Power to the People concert film AND the One to One documentary in a blu-ray set, just announced. Both great. Tasty! storeuk.johnlennon.com/products/pow...

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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 · 22/08/2026

Very interesting stage of Paul's documentary talking head career, this. Quite happy to go a bit tabloidy, much less reverent to John than he is now. We discussed this quite a bit in our episode about the Brian Epstein Story.

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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

Have a go on parts 1 and 2 first if you haven't already. They loom large in our legend. open.spotify.com/episode/5PLg...

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A Hard Day's Night (Part 1: A train)

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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

Watch it over the weekend - if it's not on your shelf or your current streamers there's a good quality free version on YouTube at the moment - and get part 1 on Monday morning. You're a swine!

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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: I Couldn't Tell Ya

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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

"He's right, you know." Yes seemingly, but only if I am prepared to show them my passport to verify my age because it is "mature content". Did you release an alternative porn version? www.google.com/search?q=sit...

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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

Hear all without listening (but do actually listen, just to be clear) open.spotify.com/episode/4286...

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Raga

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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 · 24/06/2026

Never occurred to me! Personally I think they just had a chess set and thought they might as well dick about with it.

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Forwarded to Matt, the ELO apologist, and he had actually never heard this before. In a way, we are all Horace Wimp.

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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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