Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Categories:

Music

655 Episodes

  1. Sex In The Sixties - let Peter Doggett be your guide

    Published: 12/4/2021

  2. John Illsley tells the Dire Straits story

    Published: 12/2/2021

  3. Sondheim, the Band Aid recording and the first F-word on record

    Published: 11/30/2021

  4. Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”

    Published: 11/26/2021

  5. Elvis Costello, aka rock’s “greatest communicator”

    Published: 11/24/2021

  6. Inscrutable album covers and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday

    Published: 11/18/2021

  7. McCartney’s lyrics & the Tom Tom Club plus Lionel Blair and other rhyming slang immortals

    Published: 11/10/2021

  8. Happy 50th to the Pink Moon recording sessions!

    Published: 11/4/2021

  9. Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene”.

    Published: 11/1/2021

  10. Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness

    Published: 10/24/2021

  11. The best five tracks of the ‘70s and massive applause for Paul Simon (80)

    Published: 10/20/2021

  12. Kacey Musgraves’ naked TV appearance restaged by Alex Gold

    Published: 10/14/2021

  13. Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan

    Published: 10/11/2021

  14. The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers

    Published: 10/5/2021

  15. "Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"

    Published: 9/30/2021

  16. Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”

    Published: 9/27/2021

  17. A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test

    Published: 9/21/2021

  18. Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”

    Published: 9/14/2021

  19. "Pop music + distance = sadness"

    Published: 9/7/2021

  20. For the love of Charlie Watts

    Published: 8/31/2021

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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.