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Beatles City
Welcome to Beatles City, the podcast that brings you the story of the band that shook the world from the place where it all began. Join us on a journey along the sandstone-lined streets of John Lennon’s childhood Woolton, into the Kensington living room-turned-recording studio where the Quarrymen cu...
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Ringo Starr
In this special bonus episode taken from his press conference, Ringo Starr shares the experience of making his new EP Zoom In during lockdown, reminis...

Happy birthday John
Today, we mark what should have been John Lennon's 80th birthday with a celebration of his life in the words of the people who knew him.They include h...

Beatles myths and conspiracy theories
This week we hear from Cavern Club tour guide Dale Roberts, whose job it is to dispel some of the wacky stories surrounding the band.He tells us the t...

The Beatles' musical influences with Peter Hooton
Peter Hooton, of the Liverpool band The Farm and chair of the city’s Beatles Legacy Group, is this week's guest.He is determined to give credit to the...

Mal Evans' missing archive
Mal Evans was a part time bouncer at the Cavern Club when Beatles manager Brian Epstein asked him to become the band’s roadie.He travelled with them o...

Fab 4 Taxi Tours
This week we’re taking a tour of some of The Beatles’ haunts in Liverpool city centre - as well as places that are key to the story of the band.Our gu...

The Argentine John Lennon
Javier Parisi, known as the Argentine John Lennon, is so like him that even John’s and family friends find it uncanny.Presenters: Ellen Kirwin & Laura...

Brian Epstein's stolen briefcase
We get a sneak preview of some of the fascinating new items of memorabilia about to go on display at the Beatles Story attraction in Liverpool. They i...

Stuart Sutcliffe
Stuart Sutcliffe met John Lennon at art school and was talked into joining his band and going on the road to Hamburg.But his passion for art quickly o...

Craig Brown - One Two Three Four
Our guest this week is satirist and writer Craig Brown, perhaps best known for his weekly Private Eye column and biography of Princess Margaret. He te...

Linda McCartney's photos
Linda McCartney discovered photography almost by accident, accompanying a friend to a class in Arizona that would inspire a lifelong passion.She met h...

Pete Price
Liverpool radio presenter and comedian Pete Price can fondly remember the rise of The Beatles in the city and was even responsible for a protest outsi...

Helen Anderson
Helen Anderson studied at Liverpool College of Art at the same time as John Lennon and his future wife Cynthia Powell - and counted them both as frien...

St Peter's Church Fete
July 6, 1967 is etched in musical history as the day John Lennon was introduced to Paul McCartney by their mutual friend Ivan Vaughan.The moment of th...

Stories behind Liverpool's Beatles statues
From Eleanor Rigby to Hamburg-era John Lennon, there are many statues here in Liverpool that are inspired by The Beatles and their songs - including q...

Anton Mullan
Our guest this week has forgotten more encounters with fame than most people have ever had.Anton Mullan was a rising star of Liverpool’s music scene i...

Giles Martin at Abbey Road
We’re journeying out of Liverpool for this week’s episode - to Abbey Road Studios - to speak to the son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin.As...

Is Liverpool making the most of The Beatles?
Liverpool is famous all around the world as the birthplace of The Beatles - but it’s something the city hasn’t always taken advantage of.While there a...

The Liver Birds
When John Lennon met this week’s guests backstage at The Cavern he had a message for them: “Girls don’t play guitars.”But that only made The Liver Bir...

Julia Baird
Julia Baird is one of John Lennon’s younger sisters. She was there when he learned to play music with their mother, and she had to try to cope with hi...

Series 3 trailer
Beatles City returns from Liverpool for a third series - here are some of the highlights you can look forward to. For information regarding your data...

Bonus - Abbey Road 50th anniversary with Kenneth Womack
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road being released andwe’re marking the occasion with a special bonus episode of BeatlesCity podcast.Ou...

Gavin Pring - Emmy-winning George Harrison tribute act
Our final guest of this season is the Emmy Award-winning George Harrison tribute artist Gavin Pring.The Liverpool-born musician now lives in America,...

Strawberry Field
When John Lennon wrote Strawberry Fields Forever it was inspired by a real place - a Salvation Army children’s home with a wooded garden where he used...

Geoff Rhind and Vladislav Ginzburg - Beatles photographers
There are certain Beatles photographs that stick in the mind - from the chance snap of The Quarrymen playing together on the day John Lennon met Paul...

Pete Wylie and Anton Eager - ‘The Beatles Effect’
This week we’re looking at ‘The Beatles effect’ on young musicians growing up in Liverpool.What’s it like to know that no matter how successful you be...

1960s Cavern DJ Billy Butler relives his time with the Beatles
Liverpool legend Billy Butler is known across Merseyside for his famous BBC radio show Hold Your Plums but was also known for his time being a DJ in t...

Step inside Paul McCartney's and John Lennon's childhood homes
Colin and Sylvia Hall probably know the childhood homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon better than than their own.In fact they even spent several y...

Mark Lewisohn - one of the world's leading authorities on The Beatles
This week's guest is responsible for piecing together one of the most detailed books in Beatles' history.Dubbed the world's foremost authority on The...

Behind the Scenes at a Beatles Auction
We eavesdropped as New York-based memorabilia experts Julian’s Auctions spent a day at the Beatles Story here in Liverpool, evaluating the scraps of p...

Chas Newby - The man who was a Beatle for two weeks
The Fab Four may be one of the many nicknames that fans call The Beatles, but in reality the band had a number of different members before the final,...

We're back! Danny Boyle, Richard Curtis and Himesh Patel on new Beatles film Yesterday
We're back! This is the first episode in our brand new series of Beatles City and this week we start with a special episode.Can you imagine a world wh...

Sir Paul McCartney
Imagine stepping inside your childhood home 50 years after you had last left it - and finding it almost completely unchanged.This was the surreal expe...

David Bedford
This week’s guest is author, David Bedford. Since being diagnosed with a chronic illness, David talks about how his doctor prescribed him the Beatles....

Inside the mind of Beatles promoter Sid Bernstein
This week we meet the woman who was closest to the man who launched the Beatles’ global fame in the USA.Merle Frimark was a close friend and colleague...

Reliving the moment the Quarrymen cut their first record
This week's episode follows on from our trip to Woolton with the Quarrymen and we look back to July 12, 1958, the day John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Geo...

Quarrymen take us to the place John and Paul first met
Original Quarrymen member Rod Davis takes us to the place where Paul McCartney and John Lennon first met - St Peter's Church in Woolton.He's joined wi...

Kenneth Womack
Beatles Myths. There are so many it's incredibly hard to tell truth from Fiction. This is where Kenneth Womack comes in. He is a world-renowned author...

Pete Best (Part two)
It was one of the most shocking moments in Merseybeat history and a memory that will live with Pete Best for the rest of his life.This is the second p...

Pete Best (part one)
It may be more than half his lifetime ago, but when Pete Best recalls the moment he was sacked by The Beatles his voice still cracks.This is the first...