The Daily Telegraph

Paul Merton’s Beatles

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 As part of the BBC’S celebratio­ns of the 50th anniversar­y of possibly the best-loved Beatles album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, comedian and broadcaste­r Paul Merton begins a four-part series imagining a fantasy Beatles concert. Here the Fab Four put their post-sgt

Pepper squabbles behind them and give a surprise gig, joined by famous friends. Like any ardent Beatles fan, Merton is interested in the “what ifs” of the group’s dissolutio­n, and takes on the role of commentato­r for the reunion that never was.

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