Podcast Corner: McCartney and Muldoon mull over Beatles lyrics 

The chats the Irish poet had with the former Beatle for their collaborative book have been distilled into a podcast series 

Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon: wordsmiths both

Presumably one of the most gifted books last Christmas was poet Paul Muldoon’s collaboration on Paul McCartney’s ‘self-portrait in 154 songs’, The Lyrics. As one can imagine, hours of interviews were distilled to a still extensive 900 or so pages that certainly make a case for McCartney as the greatest songwriter of all time.

Some of those conversations have been further pored over for McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, a podcast from Pushkin (Broken Record, Not Easy, Revisionist History). Two seasons and 24 episodes - and songs, presumably - are planned, with the first two arriving last week.