The Beatles

The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes

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The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes was a music documentary series presented by Richard Skinner, comprising 14 half-hour episodes, broadcaston on 
BBC Radio 1 between October 1 and December 31, 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 the Live
at the BBC album in 1994.

The tapes were found in Park Mount Drive, Macclesfield in the late 1970s. 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 Britains 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 - Live at the BBC album was released by EMI in 1994.

The 9 CD's of the Complete BBC Sessions contain many of the recordings that were also done at the BBC, which includes some that are not in this set.