[News Engineer]

I don’t think the Beatles are included on the Beeb’s list of blanket clearances. Apple Records are (or certainly used to be) one of the few high profile labels which need to be cleared and paid for separately, so this may well be because of costs for BBC broadcast as well as international considerations.

They aren't, permission has to be given on a case by case basis and Apple will want exact details of how it's being used, even before it gets to any payment. I know of one instance where a deal was eventually done for a very short excerpt of one Beatles song in a news piece (so not even an entertainment show), but it took a lot of work even to get that.