This wide-ranging program visits locations up and down and on both sides of the river Mersey where the Beatles honed their talents, as varied as Bootle, the tough industrial town that gave birth to the wish "Go to Bootle" as an alternative for "Go to Hell", as well as New Brighton, the fairground paradise of the Liverpudlians, and Southport, the more sedate Edwardian approximation to a seaside resort sent on the banks of the mighty river. Along the way, we take our own journey on a ferry cross the Mersey, the river that literally brought rock"n"roll to the UK.