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Now in its fifth series; Mastertapes is an occasional BBC Radio 4 series of programmes, presented by broadcaster-journalist John Wilson, which discusses the making of significant rock albums. The featured artists are interviewed, in front of an audience, and perform exclusive live tracks, many of which are available on the programme's website. Each album is discussed over two half-hour programmes: the "A side" programme features the artist being interviewed by Wilson, with the "B side" programme featuring questions from the studio audience.

With that explanation out of the way, simultaneously aired a few days ago on BBC TV and Radio was a “Mastertapes” hour long session featuring Paul McCartney being interviewed in front of an invited live audience at London’s BBC Maida Vale Studio. The interview was wide ranging and covered numerous aspects of Paul McCartney’s career to date.

All previous 60 “Mastertapes” programmes aired to date on BBC Radio have been archived and are freely available to listen again @ …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021mjc ... des/player

While online access is blocked to BBC TV content for users with non-UK designated IP addresses, BBC Radio content is freely available worldwide to anyone with internet access. However, if one has a VPN connection that will fool the BBC iPlayer into believing a user is in the UK then one can watch the BBC televised version @ …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... -mccartney

NOTE # Available to replay and watch again until 07:00 hours (GMT) 23rd June 2016 after which time & date it will disappear into the vaults of the BBC archives.

They did 59 other MAastertapes sessions before they got around to Paul McCartney?

Macca isn't the only one you know!
"There ain't half been some clever bastards"

scoobster28 wrote:They did 59 other MAastertapes sessions before they got around to Paul McCartney?

As politics are not allowed on the forum, all I will say is: it's the BBC!