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
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Word Podcast 348 - David Hepworth book launch Crowdcast
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns we missed
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
In which we dig out a Smash Hits from ‘79 (entirely written by D Hepworth), wonder if Ian Brown’s gone stir crazy, watch it kick off between Dylan and the Beatles (in ’66), navigate the enriching wat…
Word Podcast 345 - Justin Quirk on glam metal
Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
Word Podcast 344: Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
Word Podcast 343 - Kenneth Womack on Lennon's last days
Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of Bowie's dentalwork
Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of David Bowie's dentalwork
Word Podcast 341 - Joe Banks
Word Podcast 340 - power shift in favour of rock audience!
Word Podcast 340 - the power shift in favour of the rock audience has begun!
Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
In which we we marvel at the Beatles' 12-song set 55 years ago (four of them covers), applaud a virtual gig in the Natural History Museum, ponder Alan Bennett and Ellen DeGeneres, wonder when musicia…