Your Own Personal Beatles

K.B.-Ho Ho O! We're back for one more pod to round of the year and joined by Joe Wisbey of Beatles Books for a round up of all the Beatley goings this year. Crack open your festive tipple of choice and join us as we take a look back at our favourite Beatle-based music releases, books and films of 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Legendary guitarist and former member of Paul McCartney's band in the early 90s, Robbie McIntosh joins us on the podcast for the last of the series. Robbie chats to us about this time playing with Paul on the road and in the studio, recording Off The Ground and the MTV unplugged album, as well as his time with Talk Talk and The Pretenders.  For subscribers, in this week's Pick A Song, we disc...

Legendary rock photographer Tom Sheehan joins us on the pod this week to talk about his personal relationship with the Beatles, his favourite Fab fotos, rowing a boat at John and Ringo's old house, and what makes an iconic rock and roll portrait.  We also take a deep dive into That Mean's A Lot, a discarded track from the Help! sessions which was released on Anthology 2.  Hosted on Acast...

This week's guest sharing their Personal Beatles is the fantastically talented singer-songwriter, Lavinia Blackwall and her partner in music and life, Marco Rea. Lavinia and Marco join us from Scotland to talk about the influence of Ram and George Harrison on her brilliant new album, The Making. For our subscribers, we delve into the early Beatles catalogue for an in-depth look at There's a Place...

Friend of the show, the inimitable Johnny White Really-Really returns for a third edition of the Beatles cover challenge. As has become customary, Jack, Robin and Johnny pick three songs to cover, beaver away over many months, and return to discuss the results. We are back for the second batch of Series 4, with new regular episodes along with bonus bits and Pick A Song, dropping from next week. KB...

Stand-up comedian and comedy writer, Phil Wang joins us on the podcast to discuss his relationship with The Beatles. Phil tells us of his memories growing up listening to the band in a Beatles-obsessed household in Borneo, his unusual teenage music tastes, and taking his Dad to see Macca at the O2. This week's subscriber-only feature Pick A Song sees us dive into The White Album's Sexy Sadie. Get...

Playwright, Elly Tindall joins us this week for an in-depth discussion around one of her favourite films, A Hard Days Night.  This is very much a spoiler-filled chat, you can watch the film on YouTube here!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYcKnL-9E4 This week's Pick A Song features a deep dive into 'I'll Be Back', John's brilliant closer to the Hard Day's Night Album, available to subscribe...

This week's guests is the very, very funny writer and internet comedy sensation, Ruth Husko, who joins us for a wonderful, and quite blue, chat all about Ringo. We take a look at Pretty Little Head from Paul's 1986 album, Press to Play in this week's Pick a Song for subscribers. WARNING: Blue content ahead! Links of note: Peter Doggett blogpost: https://peterdoggettbeatles.blogspot.com/2011/01/mis...

Musician William Doyle joins us this week to share his personal Beatles. The result was a wonderfully rambling epic chat about Ram, recreating Beatles songs for Music A-level, and the band's influence on William's early music. The extended version for subscribers also features conversation about William's work with Brian Eno, as well as a discussion of John Lennon's solo track from Imagine, Oh My...

Music journalist and broadcaster, Jude Rogers, joins Jack and Robin this week to unveil her Personal Beatles. Jude is a fabulous writer known for her work at The Word, Q Magazine and the BBC, and her recent memoir The Sound of Being Human, is a beautifully written look at the way music shapes our lives. In this week's Pick a Song, we discuss Fixing a Hole form SP'sLHCB. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts...

Musician and member of The Horne Section, Mark Brown, joins Jack and Robin this week to share his Personal Beatles memories. We chat about Tug of War, meeting Paul at Ronnie Scotts, and Catch the Horne Section at Glastonbury and on tour and check out The Horne Section Television Show on Channel 4 now! Links of note: https://www.thehornesection.com/ https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-horne-sec...

Jack and Robin are joined by Ollie Judge of the brilliant post-pink band Squid to chat about Ollie's Personal Beatles and the influence of Paul's experimental homemade 1980 masterpiece, McCartney II. For subscribers, this week's Pick A Song TM features an in-depth look at Junk from McCartney I. Links of note: Check His Machine: Paul McCartney Interviewed On McCartney II: https://thequietus.com/int...

Comedian Amy Matthews joins us this week to chat about her early musical memories, her love of Rubber Soul, and we take a deep dive into the 1978 Bee Gee-fronted mind-melting musical film, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Spoiler: it's less than brilliant. For subscribers, Jack and Robin break down George Harrison's Try Some, Buy Some, from 1973's Living in the Material World. Subscribe via A...

Indie rock legend of the game, David Bazan, AKA Pedro The Lion joins Jack and Robin from Seattle Washington to talk about his formative experiences of The Beatles and his latest record in his suite of autobiographical LPs, Santa Cruz. Plus we debut our groundbreaking new feature 'Pick a Song' in which we take a deep dive into Ram's denouement, Back Seat of My Car. Links of note: Pedro The Lion - S...

After a few years away, Jack and Robin are back Beatling on and writing about themselves in the third person. In this episode, we run through a few of our highlights from the Beatles universe that have taken place while we've been away. And there are a lot! Paul's live tour. Now and Then, our favourite new Beatles books, and more. We also discuss a little of what is in store over the next few mont...

It's our belated Christmas special! Friend of the show, comedian and musician Johnny White Really-Really returns to take part in our second Beatles Cover Challenge. We pick a Beatles track for each other, have one month to record it, and reunite to discuss the results and what we've learned about the songs by recreating them. You can find the full versions of the songs at https://www.personalbeatl...

Musician and songwriter Ed Dowie joins Jack and Robin to discuss his Personal Beatles. Ed chats about emotive music (notably She's Leaving Home), songwriting techniques and processes, and what makes music good - there's an easy one.  There's also some Weekly Wings and Robin gets a preview of the re-release Concert for George. Find out more about the Concert for George here: https://www.concer...

Musician, Ben Jacobs AKA Max Tundra joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. Under the name Max Tundra, Ben's critically acclaimed and influential solo records have recently been reissued on Domino, and he has worked with an array of artists from Arca to Daphne and Celeste. Ben chats about the Beatles influence on this solo work, early Beatles memories, his unique approach to...

Occult, cult comedian, Andrew O'Neill joins Jack & Robin this week to reveal their Personal Beatles. We also chat about Andrew's Heavy Metal-influenced stand-up, The Beatles' influence on heavy music and 70's counter culture, and Paul's monumental set at Glastonbury 2022. There's also new Weekly Wings and a new feature: Robin's Fascinating Breakdown, in which Robin spews forth on the different...

Rapper, comedian and actor Ben Bailey Smith AKA Doc Brown joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. Ben chats about growing up with Abbey Road, this eclectic formative music tastes, and how his career has seen him navigate the different worlds of comedy, music and acting. You can currently see Ben is the new Star Wars series, Andor, on Disney+. You can hear the track by Saigon...

Writer John Higgs joins Jack & Robin this week to share this Personal Beatles and chat about his new book, Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche. We chat about the two biggest British pop culture phenomena of the second half of the 20th Century, why they have endured, and what they continue to mean to the country and the world over half a century later. Love and Let Die is...

Comedian Ania Magliano joins Jack and Robin this week off the back of sold out stand-up runs in Edinburgh and Soho. The second guest to have a cat named after Paul McCartney, Ania chats to us about fabs-fuelled car journeys, her bizarre youth theatre production of a Beatles musical at the Royal Albert Hall, and her love of A Hard Day's night. Tickets for Ania's show, Absolutely No Worries If Not,...

We're back! Your Own Personal Beatles returns for its third series, and kicking things off is a fascinating conversation with Architects front man, Beatles obsessive, and one of the loveliest blokes in metal, Sam Carter! We chat to Sam about The Beatles' influence on metal, doing a live album in Abbey Road's studio 2, and his touring hobby of digging for rare Beatles gems in all corners of the wor...

It's the YOPB Christmas Special! Jack & Robin are joined by some friends of the podcast to chat about Get Back as we bid farewell to series 2. Guests popping in include James Acaster, Christine Feldman-Barrett, John Bradley, Sam Carter, Matthew Crosby, Elis James, Geoff Lloyd, Josie Long, Pictish Trail, John Robins, Jon Ronson, Matthew E White and Josh Widdicombe. Don't forgot you can vote for...

It's another Xmas bonus podcast! Before we wrap up the show with our festive Get Back special, here's our trip to Abbey Road from August. On an unforgettable summer's evening, Jack, Robin and friend of the show, Elis James, fulfil a life-long dream of stepping over the zebra crossing and through the famous doors of Abbey Road studios. In this special bonus podcast, we do our very best to recount t...