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Word In Your Ear

 Word In Your Ear

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.

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Update frequency
every 2 days
Average duration
43 minutes
Episodes
858
Years Active
2007 - 2025
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*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 360 - 'George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie!'

*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 360 - 'George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie!'

In which we fantasise about what happened after Clooney gave 14 friends $1m in cash, note the sale of Dylan's private letters, miss the great North London record shops, unravel Radio 1 v the Pogues, …

Sun 22 Nov 2020
Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley

Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley

Acts that wrote songs about themselves (Animals, Monkees, Manfreds, Devo, NWA, Ants etc), Lloyd Cole does handwritten lyrics to order, the welding of Bob Dylan, Des O'Connor's UK tour with Buddy Holl…
00:48:04  |   Tue 17 Nov 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley

*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley

Acts that wrote songs about themselves (Animals, Monkees, Manfreds, Devo, NWA, Ants etc), Lloyd Cole does handwritten lyrics to order, the welding of Bob Dylan, Des O'Connor's UK tour with Buddy Holl…
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!

Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!

On the menu this week - the genius of the late Geoffrey Palmer in the Kipper And The Corpse and Reginald Perrin ('rum cove, Johnny Woman' etc), four anniversary albums - Badfinger's No Dice (Nov '70)…
00:42:01  |   Mon 09 Nov 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!

*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!

On the menu this week - the genius of the late Geoffrey Palmer in the Kipper And The Corpse and Reginald Perrin ('rum cove, Johnny Woman' etc), four anniversary albums - Badfinger's No Dice (Nov '70)…
Sun 08 Nov 2020
Word Podcast 357 - Andy Neill on Ready, Steady, Go!

Word Podcast 357 - Andy Neill on Ready, Steady, Go!

In which the author of 'Ready Steady Go!: the Weekend Starts Here' talks about the show that revolutionised pop TV - the people who made it, the acts that appeared, the dancers, the clothes, the Jame…
00:37:08  |   Sat 07 Nov 2020
Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon

Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon

In which we tell the real story of Stardust (the new Bowie biopic), lampoon Kanye West's Kardashian hologram, brace ourselves for the arrival of 'synthetic media', dream up the fictional indie band g…
00:35:17  |   Mon 02 Nov 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon and her sister ...

*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon and her sister ...

In which we tell the real story of Stardust (the new Bowie biopic), lampoon Kanye West's Kardashian hologram, brace ourselves for the arrival of 'synthetic media', dream up the fictional indie band g…

Sun 01 Nov 2020
Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today ...

Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today ...

In which we salute Jerry Jeff 'Mr Bojangles' Walker and Spencer Davis (at the ABC in Wakefield!), comedians with catchphrase singles, the marketing genius of Lily Allen and the grand tradition of pop…
00:36:51  |   Tue 27 Oct 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today...

*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today...

In which we salute Jerry Jeff 'Mr Bojangles' Walker and Spencer Davis (at the ABC in Wakefield!), comedians with catchphrase singles, the marketing genius of Lily Allen and the grand tradition of pop…
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Word Podcast 354 - Rob Halford

Word Podcast 354 - Rob Halford

Rob Halford - still proudly "a big daft kid" - remembers old music hall acts at the Wolverhampton Grand, wearing polyester suits and kipper ties when the manager of Harry Fenton's, slogging round Eur…
00:35:48  |   Fri 23 Oct 2020
Word Podcast 353 - can you be too handsome for rock & roll?

Word Podcast 353 - can you be too handsome for rock & roll?

In which we remember Peter Frampton and the second golden age of the Scream Idols (and his hard-nosed manager Dee Anthony), are weirdly gripped by the recent screening of Cliff's Summer Holiday, look…
00:40:57  |   Mon 19 Oct 2020
EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 353 - can you be too good looking for rock and roll?

EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 353 - can you be too good looking for rock and roll?

In which we remember Peter Frampton and the second golden age of the Scream Idols (and his hard-nosed manager Dee Anthony), are weirdly gripped by the recent screening of Cliff's Summer Holiday, look…
Sun 18 Oct 2020
Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums

Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums

In which we salute National Album Day by digging out some much loved '80s LPs, the Telegraph’s Neil McCormick tells us about the tyranny critics now endure from aggrieved pop fans and we invent ficti…
00:46:30  |   Sun 11 Oct 2020
EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums

EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums

In which we salute National Album Day by digging out some much loved '80s LPs, the Telegraph’s Neil McCormick tells us about the tyranny critics now endure from aggrieved pop fans and we invent ficti…
Sat 10 Oct 2020
Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80

Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80

In which we unearth NME's best albums and singles polls from the '70s (Jethro Tull? Spirit? Country Joe?), invent fictitious Calypso and Blues stars, rave about Call My Agent, remember Lennon's Aunt …
00:41:35  |   Mon 05 Oct 2020
Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80 and the mystifying mysteries of the mysterious Marvel movies

Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80 and the mystifying mysteries of the mysterious Marvel movies

In which we unearth NME's best albums and singles polls from the '70s (Jethro Tull? Spirit? Country Joe?), invent fictitious Calypso and Blues stars, rave about Call My Agent, remember Lennon's Aunt …
Sun 04 Oct 2020
Word Podcast 350 - do we still need Greatest Album lists?

Word Podcast 350 - do we still need Greatest Album lists?

We look at Rolling Stone's new Best 500 Albums update and think ... where's the 80s? Where's the British stuff? Where's the jazz, country, dance music, electronic, heavy metal? Is it just the classic…
00:42:59  |   Tue 29 Sep 2020
Word Podcast 350 - do we still need these Greatest Album lists?

Word Podcast 350 - do we still need these Greatest Album lists?

We look at Rolling Stone's new Best 500 Albums update and think ... where's the 80s? Where's the British stuff? Where's the jazz, country, dance music, electronic, heavy metal? Is it just the classic…
Mon 28 Sep 2020
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up

Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up

Old pal Owen Parker on Street Life, Message In A Bottle, Superstition and other recordings that accelerate and the nightmarish complexity of playing stadiums to a click-track. Plus we predict the fat…
00:31:23  |   Tue 22 Sep 2020
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