The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

(2016) Sky Arts, 9pm ★★★★

While you watch this documentary from Ron Howard, which focuses on the band’s notoriously hectic touring period from 1962-1966, you feel pop history whistling past at great speed. “We were force-grown, like rhubarb,” John Lennon observes in one of many well-chosen snippets. It’s a line that chimes again and again with every new step we see the band taking.