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3. Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles embark on their American adventure, where the moral majority generally disdain their music. Read by Mark McGann.

The American moral majority disdained The Beatles music, but a reception at the British embassy proved to be startlingly enthusiastic.

Craig Brown presents a series of kaleidoscopic glimpses of the Beatles through time.

Drawing on interviews, diaries, anecdotes, memoirs and gossip, he offers an entertaining series of vignettes that capture the mood of an era.

It鈥檚 a journey that takes us from 9th November 1961 when Brian Epstein first heard the four young men in a sweaty basement, via their mop top haircuts, to the jaw-dropping prices paid for the most trivial of memorabilia.

And along the way there is the music, always the exuberant, the playful and ever-changing music.

Read by Mark McGann.

Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters .

A Waters Company production for 成人快手 Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2021.

14 minutes

Last on

Thu 1 Jun 2023 02:00

Broadcasts

  • Wed 24 Mar 2021 09:45
  • Thu 25 Mar 2021 00:30
  • Wed 31 May 2023 07:00
  • Wed 31 May 2023 12:00
  • Wed 31 May 2023 17:00
  • Thu 1 Jun 2023 02:00

Six things we didn鈥檛 know about the Beatles

Six things we didn鈥檛 know about the Beatles

A selection of surprising and revealing stories from Craig Brown's Beatles biography.