Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Categories:

Music

636 Episodes

  1. It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!

    Published: 3/12/2024

  2. Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair

    Published: 3/11/2024

  3. How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same

    Published: 3/10/2024

  4. Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?

    Published: 3/4/2024

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

    Published: 3/3/2024

  6. Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans

    Published: 2/29/2024

  7. The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune

    Published: 2/25/2024

  8. Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters

    Published: 2/23/2024

  9. For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury

    Published: 2/20/2024

  10. Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python

    Published: 2/19/2024

  11. Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys

    Published: 2/18/2024

  12. Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle

    Published: 2/14/2024

  13. Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head

    Published: 2/12/2024

  14. Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell

    Published: 2/4/2024

  15. Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued

    Published: 1/28/2024

  16. TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?

    Published: 1/22/2024

  17. Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records

    Published: 1/21/2024

  18. Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space

    Published: 1/15/2024

  19. Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin

    Published: 1/13/2024

  20. Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock

    Published: 1/7/2024

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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.