Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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Music

784 Episodes

  1. Mike Rutherford looks back at 60 years onstage and the art of cheap rock theatre

    Published: 3/18/2025

  2. Mike Scott of the Waterboys remembers the shows that inspired him

    Published: 3/17/2025

  3. The lost world of teenage love songs – and the best pop song ever written!

    Published: 3/16/2025

  4. Nik Kershaw remembers Live Aid, snoods, fingerless gloves & a sudden male-female audience shift

    Published: 3/15/2025

  5. Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage

    Published: 3/13/2025

  6. Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how to make a speech

    Published: 3/10/2025

  7. Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immediate Family”

    Published: 3/6/2025

  8. Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie

    Published: 3/5/2025

  9. The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St

    Published: 3/3/2025

  10. Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John

    Published: 2/28/2025

  11. Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler

    Published: 2/24/2025

  12. Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues

    Published: 2/20/2025

  13. Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations

    Published: 2/18/2025

  14. Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”

    Published: 2/18/2025

  15. Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard

    Published: 2/17/2025

  16. Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark

    Published: 2/10/2025

  17. The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey

    Published: 2/6/2025

  18. So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave

    Published: 2/4/2025

  19. Did Britain invent the rock band? - plus our new laws about music & Garth Hudson RIP

    Published: 1/30/2025

  20. Howard Jones has ‘the best job in the world’

    Published: 1/28/2025

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Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.