Josh Radnor discusses "John and Paul: A Love Story in Song" with author Ian Leslie

October 22, 2026

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Josh Radnor, host of How I Met Your Mother, is a self-declared "Paul guy." Author Ian Leslie is a self-declared "Paul guy" who set out to write a book that would also do justice to John Lennon. The result is John and Paul: A Love Story in Song, a book that, as Leslie notes, fills a surprising gap in Beatles scholarship: there had never been a major book-length treatment of the central creative relationship in the most documented band in history. In this conversation, Leslie explains why he wrote it, what he discovered, and why the story of John and Paul is not a story of rivalry or brotherhood, but something that defies our usual categories for male relationships.

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As a bonus episode for you this week, we are presenting an interview that Josh conducted with Ian Leslie, the author of a book that Josh and Craig have talked about on the podcast several times, John and Paul: A Love Story in Song. This was originally presented by Barnes and Noble as a virtual event.

Check out the book at BN.com.

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