Ranked #1
Strawberry Field
Strawberry Field
When John Lennon wrote Strawberry Fields Forever it was inspired by a real place - a Salvation Army children’s home with... Read more
25 Aug 2019
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18mins
Ranked #2
Inside the Cavern Club
Inside the Cavern Club
Join us in our first episode of Beatles City as we step inside the 'most famous club in the world' - here in the heart o... Read more
26 Nov 2018
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46mins
Ranked #3
Freda Kelly
Freda Kelly
She was known by The Beatles as a honorary family member but for millions of fans she was the person who offered a conne... Read more
26 Nov 2018
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45mins
Ranked #4
Julia Baird
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 ... Read more
25 Nov 2019
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42mins
Ranked #5
Pete Best (Part two)
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... Read more
3 Dec 2018
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33mins
Ranked #6
Kenneth Womack
Kenneth Womack
Beatles Myths. There are so many it's incredibly hard to tell truth from Fiction. This is where Kenneth Womack comes in.... Read more
10 Dec 2018
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31mins
Ranked #7
Quarrymen take us to the place John and Paul first met
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 Ch... Read more
17 Dec 2018
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50mins
Ranked #8
Sir Paul McCartney
Sir Paul McCartney
Imagine stepping inside your childhood home 50 years after you had last left it - and finding it almost completely uncha... Read more
13 Jan 2019
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30mins
Ranked #9
Chas Newby - The man who was a Beatle for two weeks
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 differ... Read more
1 Jul 2019
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26mins
Ranked #10
Step inside Paul McCartney's and John Lennon's childhood homes
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 ... Read more
22 Jul 2019
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #11
We're back! Danny Boyle, Richard Curtis and Himesh Patel on new Beatles film Yesterday
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 epis... Read more
25 Jun 2019
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39mins
Ranked #12
Behind the Scenes at a Beatles Auction
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 Liverpo... Read more
7 Jul 2019
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36mins
Ranked #13
Series 3 trailer
Series 3 trailer
Beatles City returns from Liverpool for a third series - here are some of the highlights you can look forward to. For i... Read more
18 Nov 2019
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4mins
Ranked #14
Reliving the moment the Quarrymen cut their first record
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 Jo... Read more
24 Dec 2018
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46mins
Ranked #15
Inside the mind of Beatles promoter Sid Bernstein
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 wa... Read more
31 Dec 2018
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32mins
Ranked #16
The Liver Birds
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.”Bu... Read more
2 Dec 2019
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26mins
Ranked #17
Pete Wylie and Anton Eager - ‘The Beatles Effect’
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 n... Read more
11 Aug 2019
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48mins
Ranked #18
Gavin Pring - Emmy-winning George Harrison tribute act
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 m... Read more
1 Sep 2019
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35mins
Ranked #19
David Bedford
David Bedford
This week’s guest is author, David Bedford. Since being diagnosed with a chronic illness, David talks about how his doct... Read more
7 Jan 2019
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30mins
Ranked #20
1960s Cavern DJ Billy Butler relives his time with the Beatles
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 know... Read more
28 Jul 2019
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23mins