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Me Hello and welcome to Eggpot Express with me Chris Shaw.

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and in this episode i'm joined by samira armid hello hello that was that was a you'd have to know

the album but your listeners all know exactly what that is referenced today so first question what about your

book then?

I know, I'm very excited. So am I. Tell me more. I've read it. It's very good. Oh, well, thank you. Well, I kind of wanted to know what you thought of it, because I set out to write a book which captured not just the joy of watching the film, but look in some detail at what the Beatles became as a result of it and the impact of the film on pop music, on cinema, and in a way what it revealed about how Britain was changing. So I've got a whole chapter on the women in the film, and I've got a whole chapter on the TV industry, because I think this collision of high and low culture that the Beatles are at the heart of. It's just a great story. So,

yeah, my bit of social history. And I've got to credit you, Chris, because, you know, coming on your

podcast back in, was it 2019? Oh, gosh. 2018? Yeah. Was sort of the spark? Because, you know,

I realized I had all these thoughts, had me thinks. And I started to express them. And now I've come back to express them on Eggpot Express. So they've all gone to the book as well. So, yeah, I'm really pleased. And it's got loads of photographs from the film, including production shots. You can see how they shot certain things, like the jumping around in the field and stuff. Yeah. They weren't actually flying through the air. The research must have been so much fun. It was so much fun. And there's a lot on the record. But there's a lot which you can put together. I found three young women who'd been in the audience, or two had been in the concert, sort of screaming. and one had been in the opera scene with Wilfred Bramble when he comes up through the trapdoor.

And that was, Two had been in the concert, sort of screaming. And one had been in the opera scene with Wilfred Bramble when he comes up through the trap door.

And that was quite interesting, just the story of how short notice they recruited people,

the day before the shoot, people going around finding music students to get to do this stuff.

And I know what the sort of interactions of the Beatles in the canteen.

And, you know, there's a lot more that hasn't been told. You think you know everything the sort of interaction to the Beatles in the canteen and you know there's

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