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Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles.

My name is Jason Carty.

My name is Stephen Corkroft.

And we're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

Today, we are looking at the Beatles anthology again, as the project continues to be 25 years old.

In our first episode, we looked at the path from 68 until going into production in 92.

In our second episode, we looked at the production itself from 1992 to 1995.

Today, we're going to focus on the release of it and the aftermath, both in terms of the group's dynamics,

and how the group continues to function today, because the Beatles' ontology, it turned the band into an active band again, didn't it, Stephen? I think we're still feeling the effects of that today.

Yeah, I think it really set the stage for them to carry forward into the

21st century. And what we'll talk about in the next

a little while is how that wasn't

really their intention at the time. I think it was

kind of seen to be just this one project,

but they didn't really get what they wanted.

No, and I mean, I think we've touched on this in previous episodes

that they all seem to have approached this project

with a different motivation and a different intent.

And that that becomes very clear as you actually move through the release schedule of the

project itself. Because this isn't, this isn't just the television series. There's, you know,

there's a, there's the TV, there's, there's the music, there's a, there's a book, there's a range of hairdressing

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