Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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729 Episodes

  1. For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”

    Published: 3/3/2024
  2. Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans

    Published: 2/29/2024
  3. The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune

    Published: 2/25/2024
  4. Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters

    Published: 2/23/2024
  5. For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury

    Published: 2/20/2024
  6. Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python

    Published: 2/19/2024
  7. Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys

    Published: 2/18/2024
  8. Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle

    Published: 2/14/2024
  9. Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head

    Published: 2/12/2024
  10. Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell

    Published: 2/4/2024
  11. Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued

    Published: 1/28/2024
  12. TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?

    Published: 1/22/2024
  13. Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records

    Published: 1/21/2024
  14. Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space

    Published: 1/15/2024
  15. Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin

    Published: 1/13/2024
  16. Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock

    Published: 1/7/2024
  17. Noel Coward, Gallagher & Squire’s superpower summit & the art of the Bob Dylan backbeat

    Published: 12/31/2023
  18. Hipgnosis album art, the hardest working man in showbiz & the moment the world went mad

    Published: 12/18/2023
  19. Denny Laine, the Move’s catastrophic court case & the man who's made 700 albums in 2 years

    Published: 12/10/2023
  20. The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Kenneth Womack

    Published: 12/5/2023

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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.