Media
Mark Lewisohn often appears on radio and in podcasts; on TV, YouTube, Vimeo and other video outlets.
Here’s a selection of some currently-available recordings.
Audio
Steve Wright’s Big Guests, with OJ Borg – Hornsey Road and Abbey Road
Mark is in the studio on BBC Radio 2, talking about the Beatles and his Hornsey Road theatre tour.
August 2019
Great Lives – Brian Epstein
Mark joins Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and host Matthew Parris in this edition of the BBC Radio 4 series Great Lives.
May 2019
Fab4Cast (118) – A conversation with Mark Lewisohn
(#1, Writing The Beatles’ History)
Mark discusses his full-time job as a writer and researcher of the
Beatles’ history.
April 2019
Fab4Cast (119) – A conversation with Mark Lewisohn (#2, Spring 1969)
Mark discusses the Beatles’ lives from January to June 1969 – business issues, drugs, marriages and music.
April 2019
Swinging Through the Sixties (27) – Loving The Beatles
Mark joins hosts Richard Buskin and Erik Taros to discuss a lifelong love story, focusing not only on the Beatles’ music but also their personalities.
April 2019
Swinging Through the Sixties (21) – The Lennon and McCartney White Albums
Recorded at the White Album Symposium (Monmouth University, New Jersey), Mark joins Richard Buskin, Erik Taros and Allan Kozinn to discuss John and Paul’s White Albums.
November 2018
Fabcast (22) – 1976 with Mark Lewisohn
Mark joins Howie Edelson and Stephen Bard for a deep exploration of all things ex-Beatle in 1976.
November 2018
The complete Let It Be Beatles interview
Mark’s deepest talk, interviewed by Greg Armstrong. Complete in this link and originally aired in four parts in this Australian podcast.
September–October 2018
Humans In Love #1 (Part One) - Beatles Authority Mark Lewisohn on Travel, Duty, the Creative Process, and the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band
First part of two-part interview by Zachary Stockill.
May 2018
Humans In Love #1 (Part Two) – Mark Lewisohn on Creativity, Conflict, and Living and Breathing the Beatles
Second part of two-part interview by Zachary Stockill.
May 2018
Things We Said Today (252) – Mark Lewisohn!
Mark promotes the US release of the extended Tune In, interviewed by regular hosts Allan Kozinn, Ken Michaels and Steve Marinucci.
November 2017
The Late Night Alternative with Iain Lee
Mark is visited by Iain Lee for his TalkRadio show, discussing all things Beatles.
September 2017
Beatles recording lost forever?
Mark talks to Geoff Lloyd on BBC Radio 5 Live – and captured also on camera.
August 2017
50 years of Sgt Pepper
Mark Lewisohn talks Pepper with Andrew Ford of ABC Radio, Australia.
May 2017
Something About The Beatles (94) – The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away: Allan Williams Remembered
Mark joins hosts Richard Buskin and Robert Rodrigeuz to pay tribute to the just-departed Beatles first manager Allan Williams.
February 2017
The Beatles Story – Q&A: An evening with Mark Lewisohn
Mark’s live presentation at The Beatles Story museum in Liverpool, discussing his new book A Hard Day’s Night – A Private Archive.
December 2016
Fabcast (13) – Lewisohn
Mark joins Howie Edelson, Stephen Bard and Dave Morrell to recall Paul McCartney in 1989 – Flowers In The Dirt and the return to touring.
November 2016
Sir George Martin Tribute - Mark Lewisohn, Beatles Biographer
Mark talks to LA broadcaster Stephen K Peeples in one of many radio and TV tributes paid to Sir George Martin who died that day.
March 2016
Let It Be Beatles interview
Mark discusses some of Tune In’s great stories with the team from the Australian radio show Let It Be Beatles.
October 2014
The Beatles: in the beginning …
Mark discusses Tune In with Andrew Ford of ABC Radio, Australia.
October 2013
Front Row – publication of Tune In
Mark is interviewed by John Wilson for BBC Radio 4’s nightly arts
show Front Row.
October 2013
The Guardian weekly music podcast – publication of Tune In
Mark is interviewed by Alexis Petridis for the Guardian’s weekly
music podcast.
October 2013
Video
Author Mark Lewisohn — Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O’Brien
Mark talks Tune In with American TV talk-show host Conan O’Brien in his longest camera interview to date.
June 2016
Mark Lewisohn talks Beatles ’62 at Sotheby’s
Mark was filmed for a short Sotheby’s promo, setting out some stories of the Beatles in 1962 – such a seismic turning-point year in their rise. June 2019.
Nieuwsuur feature on 50th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono Amsterdam bed-in
In the same Amsterdam Hilton suite where John and Yoko held their bed-in for peace 50 years earlier, Mark reviews some just-rediscovered footage.
March 2019
Mark Lewisohn Q&A Beatleweek 2018 (1/3)
Part 1 of 3. In the company of Dave Ravenscroft, Mark takes questions from the audience at the 2018 Beatles convention in Liverpool.
August 2018
Mark Lewisohn Q&A Beatleweek 2018 (2/3)
Part 2 of 3. In the company of Dave Ravenscroft, Mark takes questions from the audience at the 2018 Beatles convention in Liverpool.
August 2018
Mark Lewisohn Q&A Beatleweek 2018 (3/3)
Part 3 of 3. In the company of Dave Ravenscroft, Mark takes questions from the audience at the 2018 Beatles convention in Liverpool.
August 2018
John Lennon In His Own Write - post show Q&A with Mark Lewisohn
At the V&A in London, Mark discusses John Lennon’s writing with actor Jonathan Glew who had just performed the book In His Own Write.
June 2017
Mark Lewisohn 2016 Pt. 1/4 Beatles Bio Update
Part 1 of 4. Mark discusses his Beatles research and writing with LA broadcaster Stephen K Peeples.
April 2016
Mark Lewisohn 2016 Pt. 2/4 Beatles Bio Update
Part 2 of 4. Mark discusses his Beatles research and writing with LA broadcaster Stephen K Peeples.
April 2016
Mark Lewisohn 2016 Pt. 3/4 Beatles Bio Update
Part 3 of 4. Mark discusses his Beatles research and writing with LA broadcaster Stephen K Peeples.
April 2016
Mark Lewisohn 2016 Pt. 4/4 Beatles Bio Update
Part 4 of 4. Mark discusses his Beatles research and writing with LA broadcaster Stephen K Peeples.
April 2016
Victoria Derbyshire on Sir George Martin’s death p1 (Mark Lewisohn)
Mark talks to Victoria Derbyshire on the BBC2 morning news programme, paying tribute to Sir George Martin who died that day.
March 2016
Mark Lewisohn Reykjavik 25 11 15
Mark delivers a lunchtime lecture to the good people of Reykjavík, to launch Telja í – the Icelandic translation of Tune In.
November 2015
Mark Lewisohn reads the introduction from Tune In
Mark sits in Makoche Studios in Bismarck, North Dakota, reading from the introduction to Tune In and discussing some of its content.
November 2015
Mark Lewisohn Q&A Beatleweek 2015 (1/2)
Part 1 of 2. In the company of Dave Ravenscroft, Mark takes questions from the audience at the 2015 Beatles convention in Liverpool.
August 2015
Mark Lewisohn Q&A Beatleweek 2015 (2/2)
Part 2 of 2. In the company of Dave Ravenscroft, Mark takes questions from the audience at the 2015 Beatles convention in Liverpool.
August 2015
A Roundtable Discussion with Wally Podrazik - The Beatles
Taped at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, Mark joins Wally Podrazik and Steve Jones to discuss the Beatles in the 50th year of their US breakthrough.
August 2014
JBW 2014: The Beatles Tune In
Mark is interviewed on stage at Kings Place, London, by Danny Finkelstein – Baron Finkelstein of Pinner – at the annual Jewish Book Week.
March 2014
Mark Lewisohn, Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years | Talks at Google
Before an audience at Google HQ in New York, Mark discusses Tune In
with the hosts of Fab4Free4All podcast Mitch Axelrod, Rob Leonard
and Tony Traguardo.
November 2013
Beatles Author Mark Lewisohn on Tune In Bio w/Stephen K. Peeples
About to be interviewed at Bloomingdale’s department store in Sherman Oaks, CA, Mark discusses Tune In with Stephen K Peeples.
November 2013
Mark Lewisohn Interview London Beatles Day 20 Oct 2013
Ten days into the publication of Tune In, Mark is interviewed by Dave Ravenscroft at the 2013 London Beatles Day.
October 2013
Introduction to the special edition of The Beatles: Tune In
Mark explains the extended edition of Tune In.
October 2013