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 231 - Richard Goldstein
Richard Goldstein was the world's first rock critic. He wrote the "Popeye" column for the Village Voice during the British invasion of New York, rubbing shoulders with the Stones, Dylan, Janis Joplin…
00:48:50 |
Thu 09 Apr 2015
Word Podcast 230 - Norman Jopling
Norman Jopling worked for Record Mirror in the 60s. He wrote the first story about the Rolling Stones, he took competition winners to meet the Beatles on the set of Help!, he saw the arrival of a new…
00:41:46 |
Wed 08 Apr 2015
Word Podcast 229 - Fairport Convention
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth talk to founder members of Fairport Convention Ashley Hutchings and Simon Nicol about Sandy Denny, the subject of "I've Always Had A Unicorn", a new biography by Mick Ho…
01:15:12 |
Fri 13 Mar 2015
Word Podcast 228 - The Bobcast
On the day Bob Dylan's album "Shadows In The Night" was released, top Dylan interpreter Barb Jungr and musician and writer Sid Griffin, talked to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about how they first ca…
01:37:24 |
Sat 07 Feb 2015
Word Pod 227 - Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth talk to Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites about Great Lost Albums which celebrates some of the records which you may not have actually heard but surely nonetheless exist…
00:30:39 |
Sun 04 Jan 2015
Richard Balls and Mark Lewisohn
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth talk to Richard Balls, the author of Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story about that label’s unique contribution to the iconography, lore and humour of the British record s…
01:08:40 |
Sun 04 Jan 2015
Word Podcast 225 - Remembering Smash Hits
Mark Frith and Sylvia Patterson join Mark Ellen and David Hepworth to remember Britain's brightest - includes extremely rare 1982 Christmas flex.
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01:49:56 |
Sun 07 Dec 2014
Word Podcast 223 — Danny Baker
Part of Danny Baker’s epic November performance at The Islington in which he talked about his new book “Going Off Alarming”. Believe it or not, Mark Ellen and David Hepworth are in there as well.
Hos…
00:32:32 |
Sun 23 Nov 2014
Word Podcast 223
In which Mark Ellen, Fraser Lewry and David Hepworth consider U2's album, the rum work done in the name of the "rock doc" and the proper duties of a household cat
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00:49:59 |
Wed 08 Oct 2014
Word Podcast 222 — Zoe Howe
Zoe Howe, author of a new book about Stevie Nicks, talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth in front of an audience at the Islington.
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00:29:17 |
Mon 29 Sep 2014
Word Podcast 221 — Ben Watt
In an interview recorded in front of an audience at The Islington, Ben Watt talks to David Hepworth and Mark Ellen about "Romany and Tom", his acclaimed memoir of his parents, and his award winning s…
01:01:16 |
Wed 24 Sep 2014
Word Podcast 220
Legendary artist manager, entrepreneur and speaker on all things music business Simon Napier-Bell talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about his new book “Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay” (the dodgy business o…
01:06:20 |
Mon 25 Aug 2014
Word Podcast 219
Includes: world debut of enthralling new parlour game Rock Poker; Neil Finn’s Two-Way Family Favourites; the two tribes of Adam Ant Nation; Justin Timberlake’s moveable feast; why long-form TV is a s…
01:05:36 |
Mon 05 May 2014
Word Podcast 218 - Where's The Crisps?
March 2014: Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry convene over cakes to discuss: why all rock docs are legally bound to feature Bono, the touching story of Harry Nilsson's last marriage, what J…
01:02:23 |
Mon 10 Mar 2014
Word Podcast 217 - with Bob Harris
Men kicking stars! Smoking on TV! Having to introduce music you didn't like! Getting picked on in public! All this and more in our Whispering Bobcast in which the great man plays 70s Rock Bingo, reca…
00:20:28 |
Fri 22 Jun 2012
Word Podcast 216
This week we're joined by Jude Rogers and Eamonn Forde to kick around the following subjects: the stylistic chasm between Grace Jones and Ed Sheeran at the Jubilee concert, the desirability of Macca …
00:19:34 |
Fri 08 Jun 2012
Word Podcast 215 - with Chas Hodges
We're joined in the pod by Chas Hodges, who you'll know from such hits as "Gertcha" and "Ain't No Pleasing You". But you ought to also know him from his time in Joe Meek's house band, his stint on to…
00:20:49 |
Fri 01 Jun 2012
Word Podcast 214 - with Graham Gouldman
Graham Gouldman wrote For Your Love for The Yardbirds, Bus Stop for The Hollies, Tallyman for Jeff Beck, No Milk Today for Herman's Hermits and I"m Not In Love and lots of others for 10cc. He has wor…
00:18:15 |
Sat 19 May 2012
Word Shortcast - The Blockheads
Chaz Jankel - co-author of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Sweet Gene Vincent and Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - looks back at the rollicking rise of the Blockheads, and Derek "The Draw" Hussey contempla…
00:23:21 |
Fri 11 May 2012
Word Podcast 213
Kate Mossman, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry go through John Peel's Record Collection and ponder what you can tell about personality type from flicking through anyone's accumulated spines. We also w…
00:21:42 |
Fri 04 May 2012
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