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A Hard Day’s Night  is also being shown on BBC2 at twenty minutes past midnight on Saturday (3-4 October) night.

BBC Radio 4‘s Archive on 4 at 8pm GMT on Saturday 21 November is titled All Things Must Pass at 50:

In November 1970 a triple album was released by the Beatle previously known as ‘the Quiet One’. George Harrison ‘s All Things Must Pass was unique, not because it was number one around the world, but because of its fascination with Eastern religion.

Growing up in the 1970s, musician and composer Nitin Sawhney was aware of George Harrison and his interest in Indian classical music, particularly his close connection with Ravi Shankar. He knew Harrison’s hit singles, but his most famous album, All Things Must Pass , remained unexplored. Was this LP, written in the latter years of the 1960s already out of date in 1970, or was it in fact ahead of its time, with its heart-felt lyrics and religious themes? This month sees the 50th anniversary of the its release and so is a good time to reappraise George Harrison ‘s most successful album.

Interviewees include Olivia Harrison, Michael Palin, Jools Holland, biographers Graeme Thomson and Joshua M. Greene, keyboard player Bobby Whitlock, drummer Alan White, and guitarist Dave Mason.

To be broadcast several times this weekend on the BBC News Channel and (for non-UK Forumpudlians that get it) BBC World News, the reflections of Tom Brook, the first BBC reporter to cover John’s murder from the Dakota, on his life, death, and lasting impact.

John Lennon Remembered: A Reporter’s Journal:

Tom Brook marks the 40th anniversary of former Beatle John Lennon ‘s murder in New York on December 8th 1980. His untimely death was a slaying that shocked millions of fans around the world. In ‘Lennon Remembered: A Reporter’s Journal’ the BBC’s Tom Brook, the first British journalist to report live from the site of the New York shooting, takes stock of Lennon’s life and the legacy of his music. Brook recounts what happened on the night Lennon died when he returned to his home, the Dakota apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, with his wife Yoko Ono and he hears from some of Lennon’s closest confidantes as well as younger Lennon fans in America today. Drawing on a wealth of archive material, the programme includes Tom Brook’s interview with the former Beatle’s widow, Yoko Ono, one of the first she gave in which she discussed Lennon’s life and death. The programme assesses John Lennon ‘s powerful legacy forty years on and asks whether his messages of love and peace are still relevant now.

For those who watch on BBC World News, check local listings for broadcast times where you are.

Tom Brook’s report on the 30th anniversary…

Reminder Paul’s stuff is on the Beeb late tonight/early tomorrow morning- I have them set to record.

Ooh fab, thanks for the notice RN.

BBC1 are giving the Richard Curtis film Yesterday , in which Himesh Patel plays the only person who can remember The Beatles, its network premiere on Sunday (4 July) at 8:15pm, followed by (after at interruption for the news) a repeat of the Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney  interview from last December at 10:30pm.

Yesterday  gets a repeat on BBC4 on Friday (9 July) at 11:25pm, preceded by the 2019 documentary The Beatles: Made on Merseyside (which I think is a pretty good look at their early years and influences) at 10pm, and followed by the 2009 …Sings the Beatles (in which various BBC performances of Beatles songs by other artists are gathered together) at 1:15am Saturday morning.