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Wilfred Frost rediscovers his father David Frost's interviews with A-list entertainers.

Wilfred Frost rediscovers his father David Frost's interviews with the greatest entertainers of the last 70 years. Many of these conversations have not been heard for decades.

David Frost was the 20th century's most prolific interviewer, a master of conversation with a remarkable talent for getting people to open up and spill their souls. In The Frost Tapes: The Entertainers, Wilfred Frost rediscovers his father's interviews with an A-list line up of musicians (Elton John, The Beatles, and Andrew Lloyd Webber), entertainers and political activists (Sammy Davis Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Jane Fonda) - plus Hollywood stars (Michael Caine, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lauren Bacall). Many of these conversations have not been heard for decades. 

Produced by Paradine Productions and Chalk & Blade.

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The Frost Tapes: The Beatles

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This is the story of the world’s greatest band, told to the world’s greatest interviewer.

4 Extra Debut. David Frost meets the Beatles: From Paul McCartney’s roots to Ringo Starr’s big break. With David’s son, Wilfred. From 2022.

David Frost was the 20th century’s most prolific interviewer, a master of conversation with a remarkable talent for getting people to open up and spill their souls. 

Many of his conversations, however, have been lost - until now. 

Presented by his son, broadcaster Wilfred Frost, The Frost Tapes joins David as he interviews the greatest entertainers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Paul McCartney’s working class roots, the story of George Harrison’s first guitar, John Lennon’s love of Hamburg, and Ringo Starr’s big break (as well as Pete Best’s not-so-big break). 

This is the story of the world’s greatest band, told to the world’s greatest interviewer.

A Paradine and Chalk & Blade production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2022.


*** Broadcast as part of 4 Extra's Fab 4 season marking the 60th anniversary of the Beatles first universal chart number 1, From Me To You, in May 1963.

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