{"id":526477,"date":"2026-04-12T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:32:08","slug":"the-hunt-for-the-lost-bass-bbc-two-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526477\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunt for the Lost Bass, BBC Two review"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are no real surprises. This was a burglary committed by an occasional burglar. But so what? There\u2019s a whimsical quality to Arthur Cary\u2019s film that feels of a piece with The Beatles\u2019 music. George was a decent dad, a handy footballer and a sometime robber. Just the sort of person The Beatles would have grown up with and about whom Paul McCartney might have once written a song. McCartney even goes so far as to admit that, before rock immortality came knocking, he wasn\u2019t above a bit of amateur thievery himself. \u201cIt\u2019s there, I can nick it, so I will. Luckily, The Beatles took over. But I can sympathise with people who don\u2019t have that kind of luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Triumph and tragedy are tightly bound up in The Beatles\u2019 story \u2013 which is presumably why they provoke this obsession in film-makers such as Sam Mendes, currently making four separate biopics<\/a> about the band. The Lost Bass is the precise opposite. It\u2019s an agreeably ambling tale, well told and with the quality of an anecdote spun over a pint. In other words, the Paul McCartney of music documentaries \u2013 pleasant, unpretentious and enough to put anyone in a good mood.<\/p>\n

McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass is on BBC iPlayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are no real surprises. This was a burglary committed by an occasional burglar. But so what? There\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[243,5343,96,128,6470,263,3133,167224,10447,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-526477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-paul-mccartney","13":"tag-review","14":"tag-television","15":"tag-television-editors-choice","16":"tag-the-beatles","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}