Saturday 6 July 1957 - the day that a 16 year old John Lennon met Paul McCartney, who’d just turned 15.
The birth of the Beatles took place at an unlikely venue: St Peter’s Church fete, where the highlight was the coronation of the Sunday School Rose Queen. It was here that a mutual friend first introduced John and Paul.
This recreation of the day by those who were there includes previously unbroadcast recollections that McCartney shared with Lennon’s half-sister, Julia Baird; it will take you back 50 years to experience a church fete like any other, except that this one sent 20th century culture off on a different trajectory.
Julia Baird's interview with Paul was recorded in 1998, as she was writing her book, Imagine This: Growing up with my Brother, John Lennon (pub. Hodder and Stoughton, 2007).
The programme also includes clips from an interview Geoff Barker recorded with Paul in 1999.
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