In 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney were two ordinary teenagers who met in suburban Liverpool and decided to play rock and roll together. Twenty-three years later that friendship came to a tragic end when Lennon was murdered. But those 23 years changed the world. Lennon and McCartney became global stars, created a body of work that has never been matched ... Show More
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Is Tech Making Our Kids Less Capable? With Dr Jared Cooney Horvath
Schools were promised that laptops, educational apps and artificial intelligence would make learning more personalised, engaging and effective. Cognitive neuroscientist and former teacher Dr Jared Cooney Horvath argues that the opposite may be true. In his new book, The Digital D ... Show More
33m 14s
Aug 22
Is Ukraine’s Culture Worth Fighting For? With Charlotte Higgins
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has placed not only lives and cities under attack, but also the country’s language, history and culture. Museums have been looted, cultural sites destroyed and a generation of writers, artists and performers drawn into the war. Yet amid thi ... Show More
37m 37s
Aug 20
How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part Two)
George Michael wrote Careless Whisper, one of the biggest pop songs of our age, in an hour in his childhood bedroom. Alongside his childhood best friend Andrew Ridgeley he founded Wham!, a revolutionary pop group which became one of the defining bands of the 1980s, selling over 3 ... Show More
42m 18s
Apr 2025
The Beatles, Lennon and McCartney, and the Truth We All Share with Ian Leslie
In this episode, Ian Leslie discusses the history of the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and the truth we all share in their story. Ian explores how two young men from Liverpool created something together than neither could have made alone, not just music, but a shared c ... Show More
58m 15s
Mar 2025
John Lennon | The Boy Everyone Wanted | 1
A tug of love sees the young John Lennon pulled between his mother, father and aunt Mimi in a disrupted childhood. But that experience of conflict finds a creative outlet when he meets a cool kid with a guitar called Paul McCartney.Join Legacy+ for bonus episodes, early access, Q ... Show More
50m 56s
Jul 2024
The Beatles
The Beatles - made up of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison - were the biggest band the world has ever seen. Recording together for just over seven years, setting unprecedented sales, and revolutionising songwriting, theirs was a stardom that burned bri ... Show More
57m 6s