RHLSTP Book Club 171 - Ian Leslie
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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RHLSTP Book Club #171 - John & Paul - A Love Story in Songs - Rich chats to author Ian Leslie about his hit book about Lennon and McCartney. Amongst other things they discuss why no other Beatles book has effectively asked why as well as what and when, whether Lee and Herring were more successful than the Beatles, how this book sends you back to the songs to remind you how truly inspirational and inventive they are, how death seemed to stalk John Lennon and whether Paul died in 1966 and Jane Asher just went along with the replacement (and the more likely hypothesis that there were always loads of Pauls, why Paul said “It’s a drag” when Lennon died, how Lennon and McCartney are similar to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and much more.
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| 1:19.4 | Hello, welcome to another Rahalas Tabar Book Club. |
| 1:21.9 | This week I have been listening to and reading John and Paul, |
| 1:24.8 | the love story in songs by Ian Leslie, who is with me now. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello, Ian. Love to meet you. |
| 1:29.8 | Hello, Richard. It's a terrific book. I enjoyed it very much. |
| 1:33.3 | Let's let people know about your previous life before, because you were not really a music person or not a music writer before this. |
| 1:44.0 | So what were you? |
| 1:44.9 | You've written other books? |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah, so I'd written a few books. |
| 1:49.0 | My books tended to be in the area of, |
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