Saturday, December 25, 1965
Interview for Saturday Club
Radio interview • Interview of The Beatles
Last updated on December 24, 2025
Saturday, December 25, 1965
Radio interview • Interview of The Beatles
Last updated on December 24, 2025
Interview location: Aeolian Hall, Number 2 Studio • London • UK
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On this day, The Beatles were interviewed by Brian Matthews for the BBC radio programme Saturday Club. The interview was recorded between 2:15 and 2:45 pm, divided into three segments, and broadcast on Christmas Day 1965.
In addition to the interview, The Beatles recorded a brief, 15-second vocal rendition of the programme’s theme tune, “Saturday Jump“.
BEATLES, PROBY, CLIFF XMAS DAY RADIO!
THE Beatles will, after all, make a Christmas Day broadcast—but they will not perform. Instead, they will be interviewed by Brian Matthew in the Light Programme’s “Saturday Club.” They will be featured in three “talk” items including a novelty opening to the show.
The sequence which P.J. Proby is recording this week with the Johnnie Spence Orchestra—originally scheduled for December 18—will now also be included in the Christmas Day edition.
As previously reported, also set for Christmas Day are Cliff Richard and the Shadows, the Bachelors and the Joy Strings.
The full bill has now been set for the two “Swing Around Christmas” shows on the afternoons of Christmas Eve and December 28. Both shows will feature the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Transatlantics and Mrs. Mills.
Mark Wynter and Marion Williams guest in the first show, with Janie Marden and Danny Street set for the second.
● Other new “Saturday Club” bookings include Mark Wynter and the Koobas (December 11), and the Roulettes (18th).
From New Musical Express – December 3, 1965
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