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/miss-odell-and-final-beatles-meeting.html Join the Patreon: http://patreon.com/personalbeatles Randy Ne...
Jul 10, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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 Love, in this week's Pick a Song. Subscribe on Apple podcasts or Patreon now: http://patreon.com/per...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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 or on Patreon to gain access to this and all the other extended version of the podcast. Links of No...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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-section-tv-show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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/interviews/paul-mccartney-interview/ Junk - Working Classical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1JnAPD...
Jun 05, 2025•58 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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 Apple Podcasts or at Patreon.com/personalbeatles. Links of note: You can watch the film here: https:/...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 - Santa Cruz: https://pedrothelion.bandcamp.com/album/santa-cruz Kieran's Beatley Writings: https://kie...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 months on the podcast. Get in touch with your Personal Beatles stories from the last 3 years by emailing...
May 14, 2025•40 min
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.personalbeatles.com/episodes/cover-challenge-vol-2. Thanks for listening, and we'll be back later in the year. Ho...
Jan 27, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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.concertforgeorge.com/ Interview with the She's Leaving Home harpist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhC4im...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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 writing and recording, and providing a song for video game sensation, Trombone Champ, amongst many o...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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 reversed guitar solos on the different versions of Revolver. Recorded at Soho Radio: https://sohora...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 which samples The Beatles' Girl, here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvWj9E4CnQ Hosted on Acast....
Oct 28, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 available now here: https://geni.us/LoveAndLetDie To support the show and get ad-free, early access...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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, at the Leicester Square Theatre are available here: https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/ania-magl...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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 world. It's good to be back. If you'd like to get ad-free episodes of the podcast before everyone else,...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 us for in the Best Music Podcast and Oh My Pod categories in Pod Bible's Poll Winners 2021 here: po...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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 the emotional experience of walking down those steps into Studio 2, meeting all the iconic instrument...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 14 min
As a little festive treat, here is our bonus episode from earlier this year. Johnny White Really-Really returns to the podcast as we challenge each other to cover some Beatles songs! Listen to us pick each other's songs, discuss the process of recording and producing them, and then hear the results in full! Many thanks to James Whiting for mixing and production on Jack's song and to Joe Ryan for playing drums on Robin's track. Find out more about Jame's production work at jameswhiting.co.uk and ...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Broadcaster Shaun Keaveny joins Jack and Robin this week to chat about his love of the Beatles. Shaun chats to Jack and Robin about his experiences with the band growing up, interviewing Paul and Ringo for Eight Days a Week, and we take a deep dive into the Super Deluxe re-release of Let It Be. Jack and Robin also offer some more thoughts on The Beatles: Get Back. Apologies for the slightly poor audio quality during the intros and outros, we had some technical problems. You can vote for us for P...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Comedian and podcaster Adam Buxton joins us to share his Personal Beatles. In this suitably rambling chat, Jack and Robin talk to Adam about everything from the Stars on 45 Beatles medley, the 2000 TV movie Two of US, recording his version of How Do You Sleep, and of course, interviewing Sir Paul on his podcast. You can also hear some unheard audio from Adam and Joe's Vinyl Justice sketch with Ray Manzarek, in which The Doors keyboard player talks to Adam about Rubber Soul. And if that wasn't en...
Nov 25, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Jack and Robin are back with the first of our post-series extra podcasts. This week, Belfast-based author Wendy Erskine joins us to share her personal Beatles, as well as discussing her recent interview with Paul McCartney: The Lyrics editor, poet Paul Muldoon, and her own short stories including 2018's Sweet Home. We also have an extended intro in which Jack and Robin discuss Paul's new book and his recent live Q and A with Paul Muldoon at the Royal Festival Hall. rykFUxlNnBIqRWIAma9H Hosted on...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Johnny Lynch AKA Pictish Trail joins us this week from the Isle of Eigg to share his Personal Beatles. We chat about his formative Brit Pop years, his first exposure to The Beatles in second hand CD shops in America, and how he set up is record label, Lost Map. Johnny’s critically acclaimed latest album as Pictish Trail, Thumb World, is available now on Fire Records. We also have an extended chat about the upcoming Get Back films on Disney+. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 14
This week, Jack and Robin are joined by Alasdair MacLean of the band The Clientele. We discuss the impact Twist and Shout and Strawberry Fields had on Alasdair, slightly dodgy Beatles compilations including Beatles Ballads and the Rock n Roll Music albums of the 70s, the book, Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, and a whopping controversial Beatles opinion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Joe Wisbey of the superb Beatles Books podcast joins Jack and Robin to talk about the highlights of his collection of over 400 books about The Beatles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Actor and Beatles super-fan, John Bradley joins Jack & Robin this week. John chats about Beatle fandom past and present, the love for the band on the set of Game of Thrones, and how the Paul is Dead rumours ignited his passion for the Fab Four. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Jeremy Pritchard of the band Everything Everything joins Jack and Robin this week to reveal his personal Beatles and take a deep dive into Paul's bass playing. We chat about what makes a McCartney bass lines special, the influences on Everything Everything's approach to songwriting, and Jeremy offers his 'controversial Beatles opinion'. Everything Everything are on tour in 2022, and their most recent album, Re-Animator, is out now on AWAL. You can hear an extended, ad-free version of this podcas...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 10
American academic, Christine Feldman-Barrett joins us this week to discuss her personal Beatles and her new book, A Women's History of the Beatles. Christine is a senior lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and chats to Jack and Robin about the how her love of the Beatles and her connections to Hamburg and the epicentre of grunge, informed her musical passions and academic work on youth culture history. Includes fascinating chats about reassessing the depiction of women in B...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Folk singer and songwriter Jim Moray pops in this weeks to chat about his personal Beatles. In a fascinating and rambling chat, Jim talks about the presence of Beatles songs in the folk cannon, the 'Sgt Pepper of folk', Bright Phoebus by The Watersons, and we take a deepish dive into the Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello demos from the 1980s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Music journalist and author Laura Barton joins Jack & Robin to discuss growing up in the Beatles heartland of North West England. In a very sprawling chat, we cover everything from the intensity of being a music fan 17, the joy of sad songs, the ever-changing relationship with Beatles albums, and her experiences interviewing some musical heroes including Yoko Ono and Van Morrison. There is also chat about Laura's former fat cat, Paul McCartney, and why The Beatles never got rubbish. You can ...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 7
