About this episode

An interview with author Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley about his book 'Imagining All the People', which explores the characters in Beatles songs through poetry.

Imagine if the people in the Beatles' songs were real? That's what author Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley's new book, "Imagining All the People" is all about -- a poetic re-telling of the people imagined in the lyrics of the Beatles in their songs. Bradley discusses the idea behind the book, the cooperative effort that put it together and his work in writing it. It's a geeky idea that takes the Beatles' songs places you'd never thought they'd go. Plus we have some late-breaking Beatles News Briefs. Have a listen! (You can find a video version on YouTube.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can binge listen to all of our episodes free at Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page.CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you!NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show…

People in this episode

Guest: Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley

Topics covered

• Beatles
• poetry
• music
• literature

Keywords

• Beatles songs
• poetic re-telling
• interview
• literary analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Podbean, Imagining All the People

Books & works: Imagining All the People, Beatles News Briefs

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