Samira Ahmed on A Hard Day’s Night

Writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed joins Tyler this week to talk about her new book on A Hard Day’s Night and its roots in the world of the Goons, from the Fred shows to The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film.

Also:

• Richard Lester’s creative vision and Alun Owen’s pitch-perfect script
• Why Beatlemania was distinctly black and white and how the film mirrors this
• Wilfrid Brambell – and why the film wouldn't be the same without him.
• Ringo and David Janson
• Favourite scenes: from the ad agency to John & Millie
• Deleted scenes
• The women of A Hard Day's Night and why the film avoided stereotypes that would later creep into Help!
• Recasting ideas
• Ringo’s odd line delivery
• The disposable TV culture at the time
• Those intriguing unmade Beatles films
• And… was Paul Rodney Bewes to John’s Tom Courtenay?

 

A celebration of a film that's every bit as fresh, funny and ground-breaking today as it was in 1964.

Samira’s podcast Through the Square Window can be found HERE: https://squarewindow.co.uk/