john lennon - mendips
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:43 pm
audio at link for a week or so.
Every year, around 8,000 people from 50 countries pay homage to John Lennon at his childhood home, Mendips. But who are these visitors and what do they seek from an ordinary suburban semi in Liverpool?
Comedian, Alexei Sayle, took the National Trust tour in 2009 and was so taken with its 1950s charm and with the spirit of it, that he's gone back; this time meeting custodian, Colin Hall and finding out what it's like to live in one of the most famous houses in Liverpool.
He also talks to some of those who visited the house when John Lennon lived there - John's cousin Mike; Colin Hanton, the drummer in John Lennon's band, the Quarrymen; and Freda Kelly, the Beatles' Club Secretary. And of course just a few of those 8000 visitors.
This half hour documentary runs as Liverpool celebrates what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v1qzc
clunky video page - yoko's perspective.
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there's an article in the liverpool echo as well but the original page keeps freezing the browser so here's the first page - cached.
but that keeps freezing as well - perhaps it's just my browser?
click at own risk :
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=to+cat ... f8,d8ad694
Every year, around 8,000 people from 50 countries pay homage to John Lennon at his childhood home, Mendips. But who are these visitors and what do they seek from an ordinary suburban semi in Liverpool?
Comedian, Alexei Sayle, took the National Trust tour in 2009 and was so taken with its 1950s charm and with the spirit of it, that he's gone back; this time meeting custodian, Colin Hall and finding out what it's like to live in one of the most famous houses in Liverpool.
He also talks to some of those who visited the house when John Lennon lived there - John's cousin Mike; Colin Hanton, the drummer in John Lennon's band, the Quarrymen; and Freda Kelly, the Beatles' Club Secretary. And of course just a few of those 8000 visitors.
This half hour documentary runs as Liverpool celebrates what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v1qzc
clunky video page - yoko's perspective.
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there's an article in the liverpool echo as well but the original page keeps freezing the browser so here's the first page - cached.
but that keeps freezing as well - perhaps it's just my browser?
click at own risk :
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=to+cat ... f8,d8ad694