麻豆约拍

From The Beatles and David Bowie to Spinal Tap and beyond, Lauren Laverne showcases how rock stars lives have been portrayed on radio and screen.

This lovingly compiled three hour retrospective musical mixtape features: When Elvis Met The Beatles, an imagining of the occasion when the King of rock n roll and The Fab Four came face to face in 1965; The Final Take: Bowie In The Studio, Jon Culshaw’s portrayal of David Bowie during the recording of his final album Blackstar; Dusty Won’t Play, a drama drawing on eye-witness accounts of what happened when Dusty Springfield refused to perform to segregated audiences in apartheid South Africa; Witness History: The Monkees, a look at how a group of actors originally hired to play wannabe pop stars on TV, became the world's first 'manufactured' boy band in the 1960s; Queens Of Noise: Get It On, the first episode from the drama about a fictional female group chasing rock stardom in the late 1980s written by The Farm's Roy Boulter and Louise Wener from Sleeper; and Back From The Dead: The Return Of Spinal Tap, an excerpt from Peter Curran's 2009 radio special in which he spoke to the heavy metal 'legends'.

Plus archive interviews from Beyoncé, Diana Ross and Outkast's André 3000 talking about their acting experiences, plus the newly recorded thoughts of broadcaster, music journalist and Radio Times’ Film Editor Andrew Collins on the rock biopic.

• Producer: Stuart Ross

Made for 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 Extra

New to 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 Extra.

Publicity contact: Radio 4 Publicity