If you couldn’t make the BFI screening, then this is my next London date to talk about the Beatles and their A Hard Day’s Night film.🎬

Latest BBC Newswatch: Why didn't BBC News point out Lord Robertson's connections to the defence industry till late in the day? Plus Roger Bolton on BBC cuts. From midnight/Sat 745am BBC1 Breakfast or iplayer link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thankyou!

Thank you to Tony Clayton-Lea in the @irishtimes.com for a lovely review: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Can I say what a delight it was to meet you @iammilliam.bsky.social. I should have guessed I'd get a warm welcome, but last night in Liverpool felt very very special.

Appropriately for a book about A Hard Day’s Night film I’m getting the train to Liverpool for tonight’s Waterstones event.. last tickets via link..

Appropriately for a book about A Hard Day’s Night film I’m getting the train to Liverpool for tonight’s Waterstones event.. last tickets via link..

Literary crime scene? Or nothing to see here? 🎧

Just submitted my complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority about this poster ad at tube stations. Why is there so little consideration of the impact of such images on children? (And one might add, on bereaved parents).

Morning! If you want to hear me talk about my book on The Beatles first film 🎥 A Hard Day’s Night and how it changed the Beatles and pop music & way we saw ourselves I am in Liverpool on Thursday…

Godard get you into my life.. 🎶 🎥 🎸

Dear Sir or Madam, will you take a look (and hold the date): This Paperback Writer is doing a Beatles panel to mark the 60th anniversary of the Beatles at Chiswick House on September 10th. chiswickcalendar.co.uk/chiswick-boo...

On tonight's BBC Front Row: Jack Savoretti performs from his new album, artist Veronica Ryan, BBFC on using AI to classify films,&we discuss the debate around David Szalay's Booker Prize winning Flesh and the film and original novel of Barry Lyndon R4 715pm or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Plus Mark Gatiss on the rise of Hitler, Pater Bazalgette on museums charging foreign tourists, & Niki Bedi on Asha Bhosle. Well worth a listen..🎧

Plus Mark Gatiss on the rise of Hitler, Pater Bazalgette on museums charging foreign tourists, & Niki Bedi on Asha Bhosle. Well worth a listen..🎧

Why is @squarewindowpod.bsky.social trending at no 1 in TV review podcasts.. Well I think a certain Graham Garden is why...

Thrilled to say Dame Margaret Drabble is on tonight's BBC Front Row. An absolute dream of an interviewee as well as a writer. Her novel The Millstone (filmed as A Touch of Love) gets a mention in my BFI Film Classics book about A Hard Day's Night. 715pm R4 or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thrilled to say Dame Margaret Drabble is on tonight's BBC Front Row. An absolute dream of an interviewee as well as a writer. Her novel The Millstone (filmed as A Touch of Love) gets a mention in my BFI Film Classics book about A Hard Day's Night. 715pm R4 or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Why is @squarewindowpod.bsky.social trending at no 1 in TV review podcasts.. Well I think a certain Graham Garden is why...

Morning! If you want to hear me talk about my book on The Beatles first film 🎥 A Hard Day’s Night and how it changed the Beatles and pop music & way we saw ourselves I am in Liverpool on Thursday…

Have deleted my last post, because of a rogue comma.

Next event, where else but Liverpool? Thur April 16th With Frank Cottrell-Boyce.. www.waterstones.com/events/samir...

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you couldn’t make the BFI screening, then this is my next London date to talk about the Beatles and their A Hard Day’s Night film.🎬

Pay attention, class. The Beatles as art house cinema. Lots of events like this to come... to go with my new book.. samiraahmed.blog/upcoming/

It's exactly 62 years since David Janson filmed this memorable scene with Ringo on the Kew riverbank for A Hard Day's Night. Last night at BFI Southbank he saw the film again - but on the big screen for the first time. He was never invited to the premiere. He did a lovely interview for my book.

And @gkw.bsky.social and I have got a bonus ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social to see you through the weekend. With the evil genius of The Goodies, Graham Garden... podfollow.com/through-the-...

Loved doing this..🎶🎸

In which I make the case for A Hard Day’s Night in a parallel universe with Margaret Rutherford..

Loved this!

A total joy or should that be Goody? of an episode. Fresh for your ears here: podfollow.com/through-the-...

Loved doing this..🎶🎸

More about last night here... samiraahmed.blog/a-hard-days-...

Next event, where else but Liverpool? Thur April 16th With Frank Cottrell-Boyce.. www.waterstones.com/events/samir...

Respect to the Beatle heads who are coming to signings with my BFI Classic A Hard Day's Night book and holding me to my word to manually correct the error about Expresso Bongo: (Bongo Herbert not Harry)...

More about last night here... samiraahmed.blog/a-hard-days-...

It's exactly 62 years since David Janson filmed this memorable scene with Ringo on the Kew riverbank for A Hard Day's Night. Last night at BFI Southbank he saw the film again - but on the big screen for the first time. He was never invited to the premiere. He did a lovely interview for my book.

New episode! @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social explores You Won’t See Me, unpacking its emotional depth, poetic lyrics and Rubber Soul context. Plus insights from her new book on A Hard Day’s Night. Listen on all podcast platforms: www.buzzsprout.com/1820033/epis... #beatles #thebeatles #beatlespodcast

Thrilled to learn my BFI Classics A Hard Day’s Night audiobook (read by me) is Trending on Spotify…

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our new episode is out today (link in the first reply) featuring @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social's epic interview with Graeme Garden. The conversation covers The Goodies, Star Turn, Twice a Fortnight, Bodymatters, The Adventure Game, Engelbert Humperdinck and much more!

Tonight's BBC Front Row: Guardian music editor on the Wireless/Kanye West debacle, Tayari Jones on Kin, Daisy Goodwin on Victoria&Albert and coercive control, Guvna B on gospel music finally getting an official UK singles chart. 715 R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tomorrow!

Electrickery! ⚡️ Easter Special BBC Front Row exploring the magical early years of TV.📺 with Joy Whitby (creator of Play School, Jackanory oh and Catweazle) Francis Spufford, Lisa Kerrigan and John Wyver…expertly produced by Tim Bano. 715pm or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Just starting now on Radio 4 📻….

If you’re looking for something fun to keep the Easter Bank holiday feeling going, then the last few tickets for A Hard Day’s Night on Wednesday are right here…

Electrickery! ⚡️ Easter Special BBC Front Row exploring the magical early years of TV.📺 with Joy Whitby (creator of Play School, Jackanory oh and Catweazle) Francis Spufford, Lisa Kerrigan and John Wyver…expertly produced by Tim Bano. 715pm or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Easter special on the avant garde magic of early television 📺…

Next Wednesday's Through the Square Window is @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social's epic interview with Graeme Garden. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

Publication day!