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The Beatles
The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes

Album UK 1989 on BBC Transcription Services label
Rock and Pop (Beat)

7 LP' s + 34 sides of cue sheets The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes was a music documentary series presented by Richard Skinner, comprising 14 half-hour episodes, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 between 1 October – 31 December 1988. Each episode was broadcast on Saturday evening with a repeat on the following Monday. The series presented rarely broadcast and unreleased BBC recordings of The Beatles made between 1963 and 1968. This included sessions from Saturday Club, Easy Beat and Pop Go the Beatles. As well as the songs, the programme included much of the Beatles' chat and interview material from the various programmes, much of it involving Brian Matthew and Kenny Everett. There are also contemporary interviews with people who were involved in the original programmes. The programme title is something of a misnomer, since the tapes were not lost but simply shelved for many years. Much of the session material featured on the programme, including some of The Beatles' chat, was finally given an official release on Live at the BBC in 1994. The tapes were found in Park Mount Drive, Macclesfield in the late 1970s.[1] John Beeling, a director for the BBC, met a collector called Mike Adams by accident who had recorded nearly every broadcast of the Beatles since 1961. Kevin Howlett, one of Britain's top producers, produced a new series using these tapes along with additional material. Howlett later wrote a book called Beatles at the Beeb which credits Adams and others. It was later edited and improved when the Beatles at the Beeb album was released.

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	The Beatles , *1960 GB album by
	Richard Skinner , *1951 GB presenter

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