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11032207274?profile=originalBeatles fans and musicians gather to re-experience The Beatles' top-selling album. The two-album set was officially called THE BEATLES, but it became known forever after as The White Album. It was the top-selling of all The Beatles' albums and ranks #11 on the all-time album sales list.

The Beatles' White Album was a wildly diverse collection that included instant classics ("Back in the U.S.S.R", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Dear Prudence", "Blackbird"), gentle ballads ("Mother Nature's Son", "I Will", "Julia"), raucous electric rock ("Helter Skelter", "Yer Blues") amusing ditties ("Honey Pie", "Savoy Truffle", "Rocky Raccoon"), and surprising experimental tracks ("Revolution #9"). The writing and performing styles of the four individual Beatles became distinct. Many Beatle fans and historians point to the White Album as the beginning of the break-up of the Beatles. In little over a year, the band would be dissolved.

The White Album - Revisiting The Beatles' Top-Seller

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Everything Was Right - The Beatles' Revolver

11032206879?profile=originalWhat made Revolver one of the top rock albums of all time? Host Paul Ingles presents Everything Was Right: The Beatles' "Revolver". Ingles explores the landmark album's story and influence in depth, talking with historians, musicians, music critics, and fans and spotlighting each Revolver track (along with the 1966 single "Paperback Writer and Rain") The Beatles experimented with new sounds and subject matter on Revolver, pioneering psychedelic rock on some tracks and exhibiting extraordinary song-craft on others. Listeners learn about the sources for the tunes, the studio experiments The Beatles used to get their ground-breaking sounds, and the lasting impact of the collection on the pop/rock music scene.

Everything Was Right - The Beatles' Revolver

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Guilty Party (BBC)


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"Guilty Party" is a problem in Crime detection in which you are invited to match your wits with a panel of experts - John Arlott, F.R. Buckley and Robert Fabian. So began a typical episode of the long running panel show. It was written by Edward J. Mason and produced by Tony Shryane.

The shows started with a dramatised crime play, the panel then decided on a line of investigation and cross examined the suspects, who gave unscripted answers to their questions. This cross examination should then lead the panel to the Guilty Party!

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The Beatles In America - 1964

11032208474?profile=originalWhen The Beatles arrived in the United States in February of 1964, no one could have anticipated the tremendous impact the band would have on the development of American popular music and pop culture. Paul Ingles hosts The Beatles in America - 1964 and takes listeners back to when The Beatles and America first got to know one another. This lively two-hour montage features rarely heard archival audio, concert recordings, and new interviews with fans and reporters who were swept into The Beatles frenzy. Some of the recordings featured in this program haven't been played publicly in 40 years. (2 Hours)

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The Beatles: Rare and Unseen

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A one-hour radio special that tells the unique story of the Beatles through the colourful collection of eyewitnesses, classic songs and many of the Beatles' inner circle of friends and colleagues. From the group's beginnings as The Quarrymen through some of their most difficult moments, The Beatles: Rare and Unseen is a collection of stories and eyewitness accounts from the people who were there. Interviews with Collin Hanton (Quarrymen drummer), Phil Collins, Tony Barrow and more.

The Beatles Rare and Unseen

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