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 251 - Alan Shypton on Harry Nilsson
In which Harry Nilsson biographer Alan Shypton reflects on the man with the voice of an angel and the thirst of a medium-sized nation. We're a bit late with this, but Alan's book 'Nilsson: The Life O…
00:54:22 |
Fri 13 May 2016
Word Podcast 250: 1971 - Never A Dull Moment
In which David Hepworth instructs Mark Ellen in the theory behind his best-selling book about the the annus mirabilis of the rock album, “1971: Never A Dull Moment”.
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01:06:50 |
Sat 23 Apr 2016
Word Podcast 249 - with Zoë Howe
In which friend of Word In Your Ear and Essex correspondent Zoë Howe talks about the Doctor Feelgood frontman, subject of her new book Lee Brilleaux: Rock’n’Roll Gentleman.
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00:45:51 |
Sun 17 Apr 2016
Word Podcast 248 - with Graeme Thompson
In which Word contributor and biographer of George Harrison Graeme Thomson talks about the short but action-packed passage of the “literally clubbable” Phil Lynott, the subject of his authorised biog…
00:53:05 |
Wed 13 Apr 2016
Word Podcast 247 - with Jon Savage
Jon Savage has written celebrated histories of Punk Rock and the Teenager. Now he turns his attention to 1966, the year when pop went fuzzy at the edges, when psychedelic drugs, protest about Vietnam…
00:40:57 |
Fri 20 Nov 2015
Word Podcast 246 - with Howard Sounes
Howard Sounes has already written revelatory biographies of Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney. Most recently he’s turned his attention to Lou Reed. In Notes from the Velvet Underground he recounts the ext…
00:41:19 |
Thu 19 Nov 2015
Word Podcast 245 - Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello joins us to talk about his blockbusting memoir "Unfaithful Music And Disappearing Ink". The conversation takes in such vital issues as: growing up in a house full of acetates and publi…
00:28:32 |
Sat 31 Oct 2015
Word Podcast 244 - The Skypecast
David Hepworth and Mark Ellen talk bout Tracey Thorn’s Naked At The Albert Hall: The Inside Story Of Singing and John Seabrook’s The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory via the miracle of Skype.
Hos…
00:22:22 |
Thu 22 Oct 2015
Word Podcast 243 - The Peelcast
David Cavanagh, the author of “Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years Of John Peel Help Shape Modern Britain”, and Trevor Dann, WIYE’s go-to guy on all matters radio, talk about John Pee…
00:39:32 |
Sat 17 Oct 2015
Word Podcast 242 - Chris Salewicz
Chris Salewicz joined us to talk about “Dead Gods: The 27 Club” which deals with the rock stars who never got past their twenty-seventh birthday. His list includes: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian …
00:45:46 |
Sat 17 Oct 2015
Word Podcast 241 - The McCartneycast
WIYE McCartney Special. Paul Du Noyer, who’s interviewed him more than anyone (much of which is reflected in his new book, “Conversations With McCartney), and Laura Barton, who need her cat after him…
00:59:06 |
Fri 25 Sep 2015
Word Podcast 240 - with Patrick Woodroffe
Patrick Woodroffe is the world's foremost live show lighting designer. He's the man the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and many others ask for by name. He's been behind some of the most amb…
00:43:31 |
Thu 24 Sep 2015
Podcast 239 - with Peter Doggett
Peter Doggett is one of the most respected authors in the music field, with highly-praised works devoted to David Bowie and the Beatles to his name. Here he talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth abo…
00:49:41 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
Word Podcast 238 - Mick Wall
Mick Wall has been a leading light of rock journalism at the heavier end for over thirty years, playing an important role in the development of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Guns N’ Roses and many oth…
01:04:29 |
Sun 30 Aug 2015
Word Podcast 237 - Live Aid
On the 30th anniversary of the day four people who were there — Janice Long, Dylan Jones, Mark Ellen and David Hepworth — talk about what it was like, how it didn't quite happen as planned, how peopl…
00:52:59 |
Sat 11 Jul 2015
Word Podcast 236 - Clare Grogan
One of our oldest pals talks about Altered Images, Gregory's Girl, the joys of the oldies circuit and how motherhood led her to write Tallulah and the Teen Stars, the latest in a series of Young Adul…
00:32:42 |
Sat 11 Jul 2015
Word Podcast 235 - Johnnie Walker
In this special Word In Your Era recording the UK's most legendary disc jockey talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about playing records on the radio in the 70s, about sneaking Lou Reed up Auntie'…
00:44:52 |
Sun 24 May 2015
Podcast 234 - Johnny Rogan
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth talk to Johnny Rogan, biographer of Morrissey and Van Morrison, about Ray Davies, the subject of his latest book, “A Complicated Life”. Recorded at the Islington in fron…
00:52:26 |
Fri 08 May 2015
Podcast 233: Mick Taylor’s got the shits…
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry talk to “Magic” Alex Gold about his playing ukulele in Alaska, schlepping the length and breadth of Britain to play to one man and Fido and learning the en…
01:02:06 |
Thu 30 Apr 2015
Word Podcast 232 - Rick Buckler
Rick Buckler was the drummer of The Jam. His book "That's Entertainment" tells the story of how a teenage covers band from Woking became Britain's most popular group of the late 70s and early 80s, ho…
00:41:21 |
Thu 23 Apr 2015
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