The Beatles World Cup

The Beatles World Cup


Latest Episodes

The Best... Source of Information
May 03, 2023

How do you like your Beatles facts? Exquisitely researched in minute detail?  In one-sided Anthology form? Or 8 hours long and counting? This week, we're looking at the best sources of Beatles information on offer, in any format (semi-weekly antipode

The Best... Non-Standard Instrument
April 24, 2023

We're back... again! This week: The Best Use of Non-Standard Instrument. Forget your guitars and drums and pianos - this is all about the beautiful, the obscure or the downright odd instruments that have turned up in Beatles tracks. And yes, the reco

The Best... Ringo-centric Song
March 27, 2023

Don't pass this one by! It's all about Ringo this week, as we work out which Ringo-centric Beatles song is the best of all. We'll act naturally as we dive into a strange bouquet of deeply sonorous musical oddities, but which one will we dru

The Best... Album Cover
March 20, 2023

Our Best of specials continue this week with a deep dive into the best Beatles album cover of all time. From photos to drawings, collages to single shots, psychedelia to..  well... nothing! 12 to choose from,  only one can win... unless of course two do,

The Best... Opening Track
March 13, 2023

We're back! After an epic 51 heats, and a wee lie down for a few months, Jono & Rob are back with a special series celebrating the best of the best of the Beatles. This week, the best opening track of a Beatles album.  From I Saw Her Standing The

The Redemption Episode
November 20, 2022

64 Beatles tracks are through to the knockout rounds of The Beatles World Cup ... but there's just time for a quick revisit of our choices, and the opportunity to right some wrongs and wrong some rights. Rob & Jono each pick a song to bring back,

Heat 51 - The End Of The Beginning
November 13, 2022

It's here - the final heat of The Beatles World Cup, where we find the final of our 64 tracks that will be going through to the next round. And it's a doozy, as Let It Be and Hey Jude go head to head. It gets deep, it gets emotional, but we reme

Heat 50 - We'll Never Walk Down Lime Street Anymore
November 06, 2022

It's our 50th heat and the penultimate one, as we race towards the end of the epic first round of The Beatles World Cup. This week, three very random tracks are on the block: All I've Got to Do, Matchbox and Maggie Mae. And if those don't e

Heat 49 - Train Ticket to Ryde
October 31, 2022

You go for weeks without many real Beatles classics coming along, and then three turn up at once! It's getting tougher towards the end, as this week I Want To Hold Your Hand, Ticket to Ride and I Saw Her Standing There are put forward. Two must fall,

Heat 48 - Jukebox Cafe Fantasy (or A Bit of W*nk)
October 24, 2022

The first of our three track heats, as A Taste of Honey, Do You Want to Know a Secret and Not a Second Time compete in this grand charade. One features in Doctor Who, one features in Doctor Sleep, and one doesn't even sound like the Beatles. But whic