The Beatles Bible

The BBC has screened Sir Paul McCartney's headlining appearance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the corporation's Children in Need charity. Read more »

BBC Radio 2 held a series of special Beatles programmes over the late August bank holiday weekend, with new shows and archive material - including the previously lost master tape of The Lennon And McCartney Songbook from 1966. Read more »

While Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were elsewhere in the studio working on the White Album, John Lennon gave an interview to the BBC about the stage adaptation of his book In His Own Write. Read more »

Having been edited to 55 minutes from nearly 10 hours of footage, The Beatles' television film Magical Mystery Tour had its world première on BBC 1 at 8.35. Read more »

With seemingly unstoppable momentum during the summer of 1967, on 18 May The Beatles signed a contract to represent the BBC, and Britain, on Our World, the world's first live television satellite link-up to be seen by approximately 400 million people across five continents. Read more »

BBC disc jockey Kenny Everett gave the official preview of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on this day, on the radio show Where It's At, broadcast on the BBC Light Programme from 4pm. Read more »

The film of The Beatles' 15 August 1965 concert at New York's Shea Stadium had its world première on BBC 1 in the UK on this day. Read more »

The day after The Beatles were interviewed by BBC presenter Brian Matthew for Saturday Club, John Lennon and George Harrison again spoke to him for another radio show, Pop Profile. Read more »

The Beatles returned to the BBC Aeolian Hall in central London to record an interview for the corporation's radio show Saturday Club. Read more »

The Beatles spent much of this day rehearsing at the Saville Theatre in London. The theatre was run by Brian Epstein's NEMS Enterprises. Read more »

On this day John Lennon made an appearance on the final edition of the BBC television show Tonight, presented by Kenneth Allsop. Read more »

The Beatles were due to perform their first Italian concert in Milan on 24 June 1965. Ahead of the date, they gave an interview for the BBC's Italian language service. Read more »

John Lennon recorded an interview for the BBC Home Service programme The World Of Books on this day at the offices of NEMS Enterprises at Argyll Street, London. Read more »

Just over three years since their first appearance on BBC radio, The Beatles recorded their final musical appearance on this day. Read more »

After completing the slow-motion scene in Help! at Twickenham Film Studios in the morning, The Beatles remained on site to take part in a live radio interview for the BBC show Pop Inn. Read more »

The Beatles filmed an appearance for the BBC television show Top Of The Pops on this day at Riverside Studios in London. They performed two songs: Ticket To Ride and Yes It Is. Read more »

This was the second day of rehearsals for Another Beatles Christmas Show, The Beatles' 1964 festive variety performance, at London's Hammersmith Odeon. The show opened on 24 December 1964. Read more »

John Lennon was interviewed at his home, Kenwood, by New Musical Express news editor Chris Hutchins. The interview was published in the 4 December 1964 edition of the music paper. Read more »

This was The Beatles' 10th and final session recorded for the BBC radio's Satuday Club, although they gave subsequent interviews to the show until 1966. Read more »

Following a four-month gap spent touring and recording, The Beatles returned to the BBC on this day to record a session for the music radio programme Top Gear. Read more »