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...

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?

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.

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

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

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?

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?

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!

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.

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...

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?

Fun fun fun auf der Alberthalle

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.

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?

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.

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.

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...

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

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?

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!

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.

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

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?...

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...

Well he'll like our new episode, then

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...