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 »

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

Between 7pm and 8.30pm The Beatles were at the BBC's Television Theatre (since renamed the Shepherd's Bush Empire) in west London, to film their debut appearance on Top Of The Pops. Read more »

While The Beatles were enjoying their first full day in America, back in the UK the BBC broadcast interviews and reports on the popular radio show Saturday Club, presented by Brian Matthew. Read more »

Prior to their evening performances for The Beatles' Christmas Show, The Beatles recorded a music session for the BBC radio show Saturday Club. Read more »

Although The Beatles had a well-earned day off from their Christmas Show season, George Harrison and Ringo Starr granted an interview to the BBC. Read more »

A busy day for The Beatles. In the afternoon they filmed a special edition of the BBC television show Juke Box Jury, before performing for 2,500 hometown fans. In the evening they played another two shows at the nearby Odeon Cinema. Read more »

En route to Fairfield Hall in Croydon, where they performed later that evening, The Beatles recorded an appearance on the BBC radio show Saturday Club at London's Playhouse Theatre. Read more »

This was the fourth and final day in which The Beatles were filmed by BBC producer Don Haworth for the documentary The Mersey Sound. Read more »

For the third day of filming for Don Haworth's BBC documentary The Mersey Sound, The Beatles were filmed in their home city Liverpool. Read more »

The Beatles were filmed for a second day for the BBC documentary The Mersey Beat, produced by Don Haworth. Read more »

The Beatles were in Southport for a series of six nights at the Odeon Cinema when they also took part in The Mersey Beat, a documentary made by Manchester-based BBC producer Don Haworth. Read more »

Although much of 30 July was spent at Abbey Road recording songs for their second album, The Beatles visited London's Playhouse Theatre in the afternoon to record contributions to two BBC radio shows. Read more »

By July 1963 The Beatles were more than used to hard work. What was unusual about this day, however, was that they completed, in under eight hours, 18 songs for three editions of the radio show Pop Go The Beatles. Read more »

Although they were in the middle of a season of concerts at Margate's Winter Gardens, The Beatles travelled to London to record shows six and seven of their BBC radio series Pop Go The Beatles on this day. Read more »