Beatles at the BBC

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Celebrating The Beatles

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Marking the 60th anniversary of the release of their debut single, Love Me Do.

Radio 2 celebrates the extraordinary contribution The Beatles have made to popular music and culture on the 60th anniversary of the release of their debut single, Love Me Do.

Radio 2 celebrates the extraordinary contribution The Beatles have made to popular music and culture on the 60th anniversary of the release of their debut single - Love Me Do

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A rare chance to hear the Beatles as BBC audiences would have originally encountered them

4 Extra Debut. It’s back to the early 1960s when the Beatles burst forth on BBC radio. Ken Bruce plunders the vintage archive. From 2013.

Ken Bruce presents a chance to hear the Beatles as BBC audiences would have originally encountered them.

This programme features extracts from ‘Pop Go The Beatles’ [July - September 1963], ‘Public Ear’ [November 1963], ‘From Us To You’ [March 1964’ ‘The Alan Freeman Show’ [July 1964], and ‘Saturday Club’ [November 1964] to create a revealing portrait of how British audiences would have originally heard The Beatles, the way they presented themselves and the impressions that they left.

In addition to songs recorded in BBC studios, the programme also contains interviews with the Fab Four and a glimpse behind the scenes as they attempt to record ‘I Feel Fine’ for a ‘Saturday Club’ session.

Broadcast on 4 Extra to mark the 60th anniversary of the Beatles first universal chart number 1, From Me To You, in  May 1963.  

Producer: Mark Hagen

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 2013.

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