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 337 - David Mitchell on why writing about the rock boom of 1967 is "an open goal"
Novelist David Mitchell on Utopia Avenue, his fictional account of life in a band (Sunday Times No 1 best-seller!) - plus Bucks Fizz at the Malvern Winter Gardens, the lure of Marillion, the effect o…
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary...
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary: 50 and 40 years ago this week!
Word Podcast 335
Word Podcast 335 - Live Aid's "2,000 million global audience": surely some mistake?
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records"
Music writer, author and old pal from Word magazine, Graeme Thomson on his spledid new book, "Small Hours: the Long Night of John Martyn", a tale involving immaculately delicate music, dark undercurr…
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
In which we ponder rock and roll stage names, the immortal gag that launched Billy Connolly, KT Tunstall versus the streaming system and best guests on chat shows - and the only British Prime Ministe…
Word Podcast 330
Word Podcast 330
In which we contemplate pop stars' statues, 50th anniversary albums, excruciating things actors do in Lockdown, fictitious Monsters of Rock, the curious tale of Madonna's Ray Of Light and the best/wo…
Word Podcast 329
Word Podcast 329
Word Podcast 328 - There's no fame like LP cover fame!
Podcast 328 - There's no fame like LP cover fame!
In which we play the Stackwaddy Game with power pop and the UFO club, wonder how come artists remake their classic albums, explain why nobody truly wanted Little Feat to be massive, ponder the one re…