BBC’s Bob Harris and author/music journalist Colin Hall come together to discuss their mutual love and appreciation of The Beatles, that includes rare archive from Bob Harris’ collection of interviews with Lennon and McCartney.

By 1963 Paul and John had written so many songs that they simply couldn’t all be accommodated on just their own Beatles releases, so it made artistic and economic good sense to offer them to other Merseybeat artists for recording including Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and Tommy Quickly.

This is the story behind those songs, the hits, the misses and the demos that the group never released… in essence, the songs the Beatles gave away.