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The 50 best TV shows of 2021: 50-11

Our countdown of the year’s best telly brings a footballing comedy that shoots and scores again, and a sitcom about an all-female, all-Muslim punk bandMore on the best culture of 2021This list is drawn from votes by Guardian TV writers: each votes fo...

The 50 best TV shows of 2021: 50-21

Our countdown of the year’s best telly brings the return of the Beatles, an underwater nightmare, and a comical slice of Native American youthMore on the best culture of 2021This list is drawn from votes by Guardian TV writers: each votes for their t...

Let him be: how McCartney saved roadie from arrest after Beatles final concert

Diaries of band’s road manager, Mal Evans, revealing chaos at gig to feature in major biographyThe police famously tried to shut down the Beatles’s rooftop concert on 30 January 1969, over concerns of breach of the peace, in what was to be the band’s...

Beatles memories and Banksy’s identity | Brief letters

The Beatles | Banksy | Marina Hyde | Maskless politicians | Garden wordsearchThank you, Jonathan Freedland, for encapsulating my feelings about the Beatles (The Beatles were like aliens from the future in 1969 - and they are still as radical today, 2...

The world owes Yoko an apology! 10 things we learned from The Beatles: Get Back

Peter Jackson’s eight-hour documentary on the Fab Four reveals Ringo is an amazing drummer, McCartney was a joy and their entourage were coolest of allThe concept for Let It Be was: no concept. The Beatles arrived in an empty studio and wondered wher...

‘I was part of the Beatles’ act’: Mike McCartney’s best photograph

‘I call our kid “Rambo Paul” in this one, because he reminds me of Stallone. I have no idea why George is pointing at his nipple’I didn’t intend to pick up a camera. I’d been practising on drums that had fallen off the back of a lorry into our house...

Tell us what you think about the documentary The Beatles: Get Back

What were the most surprising, moving, exciting, revelatory, or baffling parts of the documentary for you?Peter Jackson has spent the last four years whittling down 60 hours of unseen footage of the Beatles into a new three-part documentary series, T...

The week in TV: The Beatles: Get Back; The Princes and the Press; Escape from the Taliban; The Wheel of Time

Peter Jackson’s new Beatles doc is a visual treat with longueurs; Amol Rajan shames the tabloids for their treatment of William and Harry; and Jeff Bezos gets his Game of ThronesThe Beatles: Get Back (Disney+)The Princes and the Press (BBC Two) | iPl...

The Beatles were like aliens from the future in 1969 - and they are still as radical today | Jonathan Freedland

In a postwar Britain divided by class identity and economic decline, they were complex, emotional men whose music still thrillsThey Shall Not Grow Old was the title Peter Jackson gave to the first documentary he made, and he could have named his late...

The Beatles: Get Back review – eight hours of TV so aimless it threatens your sanity

In Peter Jackson’s latest epic, the moments of inspiration and interest are marooned amid acres of meandering chit-chat. What a schlepThe Beatles’ 1970 album Let It Be and its depressing accompanying documentary were always bugbears among the former...

‘I just can’t believe it exists’: Peter Jackson takes us into the Beatles vault locked up for 52 years

Ahead of his epic series Get Back, the director reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four – and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside downWhen the world closed down in March 2020, most of us h...

A moment that changed me: ‘After 102 days in intensive care, I finally came home’

A year after I left hospital, I’m still getting over the Covid that almost killed me. But I’m not going to waste another minute of my lifeI was in a wheelchair when they brought me home at the end of September 2020. I had been in intensive care for 1...

WE SAID HELLO IN 2001, GOODBYE IN 2021

by Pat Matthews11/16/2021 Let me say it's been a labor of love. I have poured my heart and soul into programming Beatles-A-Rama!!! internet radio for twenty plus ye...

Lost psychedelic pop song with George Harrison and Ringo Starr unearthed

Radhe Shaam, written and produced by broadcaster Suresh Joshi, features stunning guest appearances by Beatles in breaks from recording Hey Jude in 1968A lost, never-before-heard psychedelic pop song featuring George Harrison and Ringo Starr has been...

Maureen Cleave, British journalist who championed the Beatles, dies aged 87

After befriending the band, Cleave influenced their lyrics and prompted John Lennon’s infamous comment that they were ‘more popular than Jesus’Maureen Cleave, the British journalist best known for her profiles of the Beatles, has died aged 87 after a...