Love Me Do: The Beatles '62

Stuart Maconie - Presenter:
Decca Records weren't impressed by The Beatles. They turned down the chance to sign the group. The lines of rejection are recorded forever in infamy. They told Epstein: "Guitar groups are on the way out" and "The Beatles have no future in the pop business".

Gerry Marsden:
Where we live, we can leave our doors open... because there's nothing to steal!

[talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Russia was threatening to fire nuclear missiles from Cuba onto the USA]

Bob Harris:
It was going to happen at three o'clock one afternoon - they were going to drop the bomb or there was going to be some kind of major global event. And I remember we had a rugger match that day, and the teams - as we ran out onto the pitch, we all stood looking towards the west to see if there was going to be some kind of major sort of orange explosion in the sky or something.