About this episode

Filmmaker Chris Purcell discusses his documentary 'Evolver 62' and previous Beatles-related work.

Film maker Chris Purcell joins to discuss his new documentary, "Evolver 62" and some of his previous Beatles-related work ("The Beatles and Us"). Along the way we chat about why some Beatles docs work, and others ... not so much. #madeonzencastr

People in this episode

Hosts: Ed Chen, Jon Stone, Lonnie Pena, Martin Quibell

Guest: Chris Purcell

Topics covered

• documentary
• The Beatles
• film making
• music history
• media analysis

Keywords

• Evolver 62
• The Beatles
• documentary
• Chris Purcell
• film making
• music history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: When They Was Fab, ZenCastr

Books & works: Evolver 62, The Beatles and Us

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