Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Categories:

Music

796 Episodes

  1. Bill Bailey celebrates “the things that make us human”.

    Published: 12/21/2024

  2. How Al Stewart struck gold, the folk boom and a flat-share with Paul Simon

    Published: 12/19/2024

  3. ‘Mystique is dead’: what Gary Kemp learnt in 40 years of making and selling records

    Published: 12/18/2024

  4. The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles

    Published: 12/17/2024

  5. The greatest sax solo, YMCA, musical one-night stands and Tom Hanks’ wise advice

    Published: 12/9/2024

  6. How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits

    Published: 12/8/2024

  7. The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets & Trump’s guitars

    Published: 12/2/2024

  8. How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them

    Published: 12/1/2024

  9. Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual delight

    Published: 11/29/2024

  10. Danny Baker - the panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote with a taste of his upcoming tour

    Published: 11/27/2024

  11. The Band Aid recording, the birth of the tape loop and the power of the movie theme tune

    Published: 11/25/2024

  12. How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong

    Published: 11/23/2024

  13. John Lydon on the genius of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and the fine art of Spoken Word

    Published: 11/20/2024

  14. The poshest pop star ever, music in Xmas ads and song lyrics we can still recite

    Published: 11/18/2024

  15. Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman

    Published: 11/13/2024

  16. Peter Perrett of the Only Ones – teenage life, a wondrous return and a 35-year lost weekend.

    Published: 11/12/2024

  17. Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blockbuster

    Published: 11/11/2024

  18. The genius of George Harrison and why he’s still underrated

    Published: 11/9/2024

  19. Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds - his Year Zero moment, Imposter Syndrome and seeing the Beatles (aged 7)

    Published: 11/4/2024

  20. Kraftwerk, Cream, Nirvana, savage reviews, fantasy girlfriends and a naked Nick Cave ‘plush doll’

    Published: 11/3/2024

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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.