5x15 Special: Inside The World of The Beatles with Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon & Tom Holland

Gary Kemp is one of the UK’s most successful songwriters of the past 40 years, best known for writing the words and music for all 23 of Spandau Ballet’s hit singles. In 2012, he received the prestigious Outstanding Song Collection Award at the Ivor Novello Awards, and in 2023, was honoured with the BMI Icon Award at the BMI London Awards for his contributions to music and popular culture. Gary is the co-host with bassist Guy Pratt on the Apple #1 podcast Rockonteurs.

Simon Halfon is an art director and BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, best known for producing Wham! for Netflix and the award-winning Oasis documentary Supersonic, which he later adapted into a Sunday Times bestselling book published by Headline, his first feature SLEUTH written by Harold Pinter, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Michael Caine and Jude Law.

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of numerous books including Rubicon, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Dominion, which tells the epic story of how those in the West came to be what they are, and why they think the way they do, and, Pax, the definitive history of Rome’s golden age. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. Holland is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs. He is also co-presenter of the top 10 podcast, The Rest is History.