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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... Read more

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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

18mins

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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

46mins

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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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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

42mins

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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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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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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

50mins

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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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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

26mins

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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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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

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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

36mins

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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

4mins

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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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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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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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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

48mins

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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

35mins

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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

30mins

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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

23mins

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