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I am the EggPod

6: A Hard Day’s Night: Samira Ahmed

I am the EggPod

I am the EggPod

Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

4.8467 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Journalist, broadcaster and writer Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK), discusses A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles with host, Chris Shaw (@ChrisShawEditor)

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:04.0

One, two, three, four.

0:06.0

Ah! Hello and welcome to another episode of I am the Eggpot hosted by me, Chris Shaw.

0:35.3

You can find me on Twitter as at Chris Shaw editor.

0:38.5

The egg pods take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle

0:42.9

albums with a potpoury of delicious guests. In this episode, I'm joined by journalist, writer,

0:49.0

and broadcaster, Samira Ahmed.

0:51.5

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. As Samira can be found on Twitter as at Samira Ahmed UK.

1:34.9

So Samira, where did you first hear this album?

1:37.8

When did you get into it?

1:39.0

Where did Hard Day's Night come into this?

1:41.5

I have two sources for it.

1:43.4

One is the BBC showed all the Beatles films at Christmas

1:46.4

1978, I think it was. And I remember watching them and just falling in love with them. I had an

1:52.2

elder brother who was born in 1963, so he was already playing a lot of Beatles music and I grew up

1:56.3

very much with his tastes. And weirdly, this is one of the first albums I bought. So we went to

2:01.2

HMV and I bought the record. I thought, oh, I know this album from the film and I will love it.

2:06.2

And my brother managed to con me into doing a swap. I gave him this album and he gave me

2:11.4

the bootleg Beatles at the Star Club Hamburg plus a David Soul single. I went, oh yeah, but you

2:16.4

get two Beatles records for one.

2:18.8

And you just, you know, I was so young.

2:20.5

So, and this is, I brought mine in.

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