Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Categories:

784 Episodes

  1. Queen, Bowie and other residents of Rockfield Studios remembered by the cook’s daughter

    Published: 8/2/2024
  2. 57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelations

    Published: 7/31/2024
  3. Ron Sexsmith doesn’t need a teleprompter. He can do 40 Dylan songs at the drop of a hat

    Published: 7/30/2024
  4. Without John Mayall … no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo or Led Zeppelin?

    Published: 7/29/2024
  5. Best album sleeves, what’s ruined singing and pop as ‘empowerment porn’

    Published: 7/21/2024
  6. Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?

    Published: 7/18/2024
  7. Backstage at Live Aid, the first Knebworth and bands that don’t get on

    Published: 7/15/2024
  8. How Joni Mitchell joined the boys’ club and why we don’t need a comeback – by Ann Powers

    Published: 7/12/2024
  9. Twist And Shout? Spiral Scratch? Corey duBrowa celebrates the best and rarest EPs ever made

    Published: 7/8/2024
  10. What songs should be longer or shorter?

    Published: 7/7/2024
  11. Dylan Jones – Clegg’s women, Hague’s pints and “the wiring behind celebrity culture”

    Published: 7/3/2024
  12. Happy accidents, whooping at gigs and why the album review star system doesn’t work anymore

    Published: 6/30/2024
  13. Pop football chants, Reg ‘Reg’ Snipton sings Joni Mitchell & the tale of John Lennon’s watch

    Published: 6/24/2024
  14. Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake

    Published: 6/21/2024
  15. The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are

    Published: 6/18/2024
  16. For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve

    Published: 6/17/2024
  17. Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock

    Published: 6/15/2024
  18. How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?

    Published: 6/11/2024
  19. Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music

    Published: 6/9/2024
  20. “Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair

    Published: 6/8/2024

5 / 40

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.