Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Categories:

Music

754 Episodes

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

    Published: 12/8/2024

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

    Published: 12/2/2024

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

    Published: 12/1/2024

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

    Published: 11/29/2024

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

    Published: 11/27/2024

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

    Published: 11/25/2024

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

    Published: 11/23/2024

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

    Published: 11/20/2024

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

    Published: 11/18/2024

  10. Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman

    Published: 11/13/2024

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

    Published: 11/12/2024

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

    Published: 11/11/2024

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

    Published: 11/9/2024

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

    Published: 11/4/2024

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

    Published: 11/3/2024

  16. Life with the Lennons, fame, friendship, the FBI and the Lost Weekend – by Elliot Mintz.

    Published: 10/30/2024

  17. How Goth took over, farewell Phil Lesh and the curse of teenage stardom

    Published: 10/28/2024

  18. When Mark King of Level 42 was the 11 year-old singing drummer in a novelty act

    Published: 10/25/2024

  19. King Crimson, red hair dye and a singing Jack Russell: the boisterous memoir of Jakko Jakszyk

    Published: 10/22/2024

  20. Obsessive fans, Dylan’s reading list and how Taylor Swift tickets are the new codeword for wealth

    Published: 10/21/2024

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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.