Stay ConnectedWe chat to amazing guests about their personal relationship with The Beatles, and discover how their lives and work have been influenced by the greatest band of them all.
Guests include Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Mae Martin, Elis James, Josh Widdicombe, John Robins, Matthew E White, Kevin Eldon, Shaparak Khorsandi, Nish Kumar, Field Music and many more.
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This week, Jack and Robin are joined by Alasdair MacLean of the band The Clientele.
We discuss the impact Twist and Shout and Strawberry Fields had on Alasdair, slightly dodgy Beatles compilations including Beatles Ballads and the Rock n Roll Music albums of the 70s, the book, Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, and a whopping controversial Beatles opinion.
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Joe Wisbey of the superb Beatles Books podcast joins Jack and Robin to talk about the highlights of his collection of over 400 books about The Beatles.
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Actor and Beatles super-fan, John Bradley joins Jack & Robin this week. John chats about Beatle fandom past and present, the love for the band on the set of Game of Thrones, and how the Paul is Dead rumours ignited his passion for the Fab Four.
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Jeremy Pritchard of the band Everything Everything joins Jack and Robin this week to reveal his personal Beatles and take a deep dive into Paul's bass playing.
We chat about what makes a McCartney bass lines special, the influences on Everything Everything's approach to songwriting, and Jeremy offers his 'controversial Beatles opinion'.
Everything Everything are on tour in 2022, and their most recent album, Re-Animator, is out now on AWAL.
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American academic, Christine Feldman-Barrett joins us this week to discuss her personal Beatles and her new book, A Women's History of the Beatles.
Christine is a senior lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and chats to Jack and Robin about the how her love of the Beatles and her connections to Hamburg and the epicentre of grunge, informed her musical passions and academic work on youth culture history.
Includes fascinating chats about reassessing the depiction of women in Beatles history, the media's relationship with the 'Beatle Wives', and the integral and overlooked role that women played in the fab four phenomenon and beyond.
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Folk singer and songwriter Jim Moray pops in this weeks to chat about his personal Beatles. In a fascinating and rambling chat, Jim talks about the presence of Beatles songs in the folk cannon, the 'Sgt Pepper of folk', Bright Phoebus by The Watersons, and we take a deepish dive into the Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello demos from the 1980s.
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Music journalist and author Laura Barton joins Jack & Robin to discuss growing up in the Beatles heartland of North West England. In a very sprawling chat, we cover everything from the intensity of being a music fan 17, the joy of sad songs, the ever-changing relationship with Beatles albums, and her experiences interviewing some musical heroes including Yoko Ono and Van Morrison.
There is also chat about Laura's former fat cat, Paul McCartney, and why The Beatles never got rubbish.
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Comedian, broadcaster and 1/3 of the fantastic sketch group, Pappy's, Matthew Crosby joins us this week to talk in depth about Yellow Submarine, Beatles for Sale, and Richard Curtis's Yesterday, amongst many other things.
You can also hear Jack make a pig's ear of the introduction to Mr Moonlight. Enjoy the show!
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On the show this week is the fantastic comedian and host of The Mash Report, Nish Kumar.
Nish reveals his love of the Beatles Anthology, notably the gigantic silver book, and how his love for the Beatles and the music of the 60s shaped his musical taste, with lots of chat about Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan.
Amongst many other things, we discuss George's Indian influence, butchering Blackbird as amateur guitarists, and the joy of Abbey Road side 2.
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Felicity Ward, the fantastic Australian comedian and actor joins Jack & Robin this week to discuss her Personal Beatles. In this fantastically wandering chat, topics up for discussion include Felicity loves of The White Album and Abbey Road, formative musical loves including Urge Overkill, British Big Beat acts of the 90s, and Wilco. We also lean some Aussie slang from the bush-rave scene and hear about Felicity's brilliant new drama, Wakefield.
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