50 years on, the world is still in love with The Beatles. Join Nothing Is Real hosts Jason Carty & Steven Cockcroft as they continue the never-ending conversation about the greatest band the world has ever known. Each episode puts a tiny piece of the Beatles story under the microscope to try and make sense of it all. Coming at you live, on tape, from Dublin. Weekly.
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Latest episodes
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NIR Reissue: Kevin Godley Talks Anthology
To close out out Anthology Reissue week celebrating the reissue of the Anthology, here's polymath Kevin Godley telling us about his involvement with the project. Taken fr
Nov 30 2025 10 min
NIR Reissue: The Beatles Anthology - The Aftermath, 1995 and beyond
Originally Released October 2020
The Beatles Anthology - The Aftermath, 1995 and beyond
In November 1995 The Beatles Anthology was born into the world in record stores
Nov 28 2025 1 h 17 min
NIR Reissue: The Beatles Anthology: The Making Of, 1992-1995
Originally released August 2020
The Beatles Anthology: The Making Of, 1992-1995
After 25 year long & winding road of The Long & Winding Road documentary, The Beatles An
Nov 26 2025 1 h 19 min
NIR Reissue: The Road To Anthology 1968-1992
First Released June 2020
The Road to Anthology 1968-1993
By the time The Beatles Anthology finally appeared in 1995, it had taken over 25 years to produce. To celebrate
Nov 24 2025 50 min
NIR Reissue: Mark Lewisohn Talks Beatles Anthology
Look outside and you'll find it's Beatles Anthology Reissue week. The records, the book, and the tv show are getting all dressed up for their 30th anniversary. Never want
Nov 21 2025 23 min
LIVE with Mark Lewisohn - 60 Years of Hard Day's Night - Part Two
Live with Mark Lewisohn: 60 Years of A Hard Day’s Night - Part Two
We are concluding our May 2024 live chat with Mr Mark Lewisohn. Will A Hard Day’s Night get released?
Jul 10 2024 40 min
Live with Mark Lewisohn: 60 Years of A Hard Day’s Night - Part One
S08 Live with Mark Lewisohn: 60 Years of A Hard Day’s Night - Part One
It’s been 60 years since A Hard Day’s Night hit the silver screen. In the intervening years, many
Jul 7 2024 45 min
Nothing Is Real Live 2023 - The Q&A Sessions
Nothing Is Real Live 2023 - The Q&A Sessions
At each of the Nothing Is Real live shows in 2023 we had a Q&A session. As a taster for the whole event, here are the sessio
Mar 8 2024 44 min
The Beatles Last Tour - NIR Live 2023 Part Two
S08 Bonus: The Beatles Last Tour NIR Live 2023 Part Two
When The Beatles landed for their North American tour in August 1966 only the innermost of inner circles knew tha
Mar 1 2024 1 h 06 min
The Beatles First Tour - NIR Live 2023 Part One
The Beatles First Tour (NIR Live 2023 Part One)
NIR went on tour in 2023, so it seems fitting to tell the story of The Beatles’ first and last tours. In the beginning th
Feb 16 2024 53 min
Review of 2023
Review of 2023
You boy! What day is it? Ending the year in the NIR log cabin looking back at 2023 - our fifth annual review. Did anything to do with the Beatles happen t
Dec 25 2023 2 h 06 min
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
1988 was an unusual time: The biggest Beatle was George, rock stars were dealing with the unthinkable (their forties),
people were payin
Dec 20 2023 1 h 07 min
Live At The Roundhouse - Part Two
Live at the Roundhouse - Part Two
In December 1968, Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed a TV special where the kings of British rock gathered to play their new material.
Unf
Dec 13 2023 59 min
Live At The Roundhouse - Part One
Live at the Roundhouse - Part One
After filming the Hey Jude promo, and in the midst of recording the White Album, somehow The Beatles decide to eye up a return to the s
Dec 6 2023 42 min
George Harrison - Gig In Japan
In 1991, when so many acts from the 60s were lucratively touring, George Harrison decided to dip his toes in the water.
Why? Money. Where? Japan. Who? Clapton. What…cou
Nov 29 2023 1 h 27 min
Press to Play - Part Two
The plan for a quick live-in-the-studio album gradually morphs into something more 80s, more produced. Hello to Hugh Padgham. Warning: Contains Spies Like Us.
Live on t
Nov 22 2023 1 h 13 min
Press To Play
Or….
Press to Play
After the huge success* of Give My Regards to Broad Street, Paul McCartney wants to get back to basics. Kicking back in a small band with Eric (not t
Nov 15 2023 58 min
November 63 - Part Two
November 63 - Part Two
As the Beatles move through the month, beyond the Royal Variety Performance they continue to pack houses up and down the UK.
What recordings are
Nov 8 2023 41 min
November 63 - Part One
Between October 31st and December 1st 1963, the Beatles pushed the envelope from being the biggest pop group in the country to something even… bigger. In a year when they
Nov 1 2023 57 min
Harrison/Starkey
Harrison/Starkey
George and Ringo always had a special bond.
As the sixties became the seventies, was there an opportunity for the
Beatles to give the world a second
Oct 24 2023 1 h 06 min
Chart positions
Where Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 3, 2026).
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As I started binging this delightful podcast, I occasionally thought: who are these blokes to criticize any Beatles song or move? Then it became: Oh, shoot, he’s right:this Paul song IS twee! He’s ruining it for me. Now, halfway through, I’m enjoying Steven and Jason bantering like an old married couple! Top ranking.
Rick in KC · Jan 2025
First generation American Beatles fan (yes, I saw them on Ed Sullivan) here who rediscovered the Beatles as I was approaching retirement. (The internet helped.)
Why listen to NIR? Because of the hosts’ warmth, good humor and laughter even as they disagree; their incredible thorough research; the variety of their subjects ranging from the music (mostly) to the Beatles’ houses, to Stu Sutcliffe, and to even more than I thought I would like to know about Allen Klein. The episodes on Brian Epstein—including his death—were (like most) informed and tasteful. But never stodgy.
NIR will tell you what you didn’t know and do it in a way that makes you want the next season to start soon.
Plus, from this side of the Atlantic, their accents are an added delight. Five stars. Easily.
Fan in US · Feb 2024
There are quite a few Beatles podcasts out there currently. Most are not worth your time. This podcast is light years ahead of the others. The hosts are intelligent and well spoken. As someone who has been listening to, reading about and thinking about the Beatles for close to 50 years I appreciate the research these guys do on the topics they cover. I’ve actually learned things I hadn’t known before. I highly recommend this show.
DrRobert299 · Jan 2024
This is one of the finest Beatle podcast anywhere.
While many musical podcasts feature bland hosts treading water in “what if” scenarios or top 10 lists , masters Carty & Cockcroft understand that a broadcast must keep moving - and this one flows with facts , humor and their own personal chemistry.
The Achilles heel of this show though is Cockcroft’s limp & continuous snobbery toward Paul - often in an attempt to overstate the value of George.
The glee that is present in the disrespect of such a beloved and impactful artist undermines this shows otherwise joyous offerings and is why I could only give 4 stars.
Mark Flores Music · Dec 2023
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