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
- 857
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2025
Word Podcast 193 - the Smilecast
Andy Gill joins us to recount the full story of The Beach Boys' Smile, recounting Brian Wilson's odd partnership with the ever-voluble Van Dyke Parks, the stubbornness and luxuriant chest hair of Mik…
01:09:11 |
Mon 31 Oct 2011
Word Podcast 192 - with Steve Lillywhite
Sitting in the home studio where he recorded the vocals for Fairy Tale Of New York, Steve Lillywhite talks about working with Eddie & The Hot Rods, the Pretenders, U2, Simple Minds, Brian Eno and Jar…
00:52:22 |
Tue 25 Oct 2011
Word Podcast 191
David Hepworth and Mark Ellen remember the Tom Hibbert cookery course, talk about what was in the George Harrison film and what should have been in it, what Tony Bennett does that rock bands don't an…
00:45:38 |
Sat 08 Oct 2011
Word Podcast 190 - the Gastropodcast
Our own Andrew Harrison and celebrated food photographer Patrice de Villiers join us to talk about Love Music Love Food: The Rock Star Cookbook, a mammoth undertaking published in aid of the Teenage …
00:37:11 |
Wed 05 Oct 2011
Word Podcast 189 - with Jonathan Coe
We're joined in the pod by author Jonathan Coe, he of The Rotter's Club. We talk prog in riveting detail, look back at his days as a rock hack at The Wire, explain the use of music in Billy Wilder mo…
00:41:57 |
Tue 27 Sep 2011
Word Podcast 188 - the Bowiecast
We're joined in the pod by two card-carrying Bowie experts – Peter Doggett - author of the superb new book "The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The ‘70" and Word’s long-serving associate edi…
00:46:20 |
Thu 22 Sep 2011
Word Podcast 187 - The 40 Noises That Built Pop
Rhodri Marsden visits us in the cupboard to talk about his "40 Noises That Built Pop" feature, to reveal how some of the sounds in the list were arrived at and the instruments that gave birth to them…
00:44:49 |
Thu 15 Sep 2011
Word Podcast 186 - The Queencast
Kate Mossman joins us in the pod to talk about being obsessed with Queen when her classmates were into Nirvana, and how you can never assume that young people go along with what their generation appe…
00:41:07 |
Sat 10 Sep 2011
Word Podcast 185 - with Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby joins us to talk about working with Trevor Horn, David Bowie, Prefab Sprout and Joni Mitchell; operating as musical director of TED, spending an evening at Michael Jackson's, making mone…
00:57:45 |
Sat 03 Sep 2011
Word Podcast 184 - with David Ford
David Ford joins us in the podcast to talk about his terrific new book, I Choose This, which proves there's no success like failure, and to reveal how Jeff Buckley's influence on an entire generation…
00:53:34 |
Wed 17 Aug 2011
Word Podcast 183 - Amy Winehouse, and our boat trip
Jude Rogers and Kate Mossman join us in the podcast to talk about the short life and sad death of Amy Winehouse. Also in this edition: our Sunday afternoon cruise down the Thames with Neil Finn & C.W…
00:50:06 |
Tue 26 Jul 2011
Word Podcast 182 - The Britpopcast
Our final Latitude recording: Andrew Harrison is joined by Stuart Maconie and Louise Wener to look back at Britpop: why it happened, what is was like, and where it all went wrong.
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00:50:02 |
Tue 19 Jul 2011
Word Podcast 180 - Latitude Day Two, with Robin Ince & TMBG
Robin Ince joins us in the Word lounge to talk about Mills & Boon and why Robert Smith should never be a crowd marshall, and the chaps from They Might Be Giants talk to David Hepworth and answer audi…
00:41:58 |
Tue 19 Jul 2011
Word Podcast 181 - Latitude Day Three
In the third of this year's Latitude podcasts, Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd talks David Hepworth and Mark Ellen through the pain of losing his record collection and reveals a genuine piece of backsga…
00:56:45 |
Mon 18 Jul 2011
Word Podcast 179 - Latitude Day One, with Simon Armitage
In the first of a few podcasts recorded in the Word "Lounge" at Latitude, Britain's premier poet Simon Armitage talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about why Bob Dylan is not actually a poet, and …
00:49:46 |
Sat 16 Jul 2011
Word Podcast 178 - with John Hiatt
The 40 Noises That Made Pop, our upcoming riverboat cruise featuring C.W. Stoneking and his Primitive Horn Orchestra, what's going on in The Word Lounge at this weekend's Latitude Festival, and the g…
00:45:53 |
Wed 13 Jul 2011
Word Podcast 177 - The Beatlecast
We're joined by Peter Doggett, author of "You Never Give Me Your Money" to discuss discuss what the Beatles wanted after the Beatles, why they could never get it, and how the four young men who shook…
01:01:42 |
Tue 05 Jul 2011
Word Podcast 176 - with Tony Wadsworth
In this podcast Tony Wadsworth reviews his career at EMI, from the days when older employees still recalled visits from "Mr Lennon" through the reformation of the Parlophone label and the high noon o…
00:56:43 |
Wed 22 Jun 2011
Word Podcast 175 - with Brett Anderson
Suede's Brett Anderson clambers into the pod with Andrew Harrison and Eamonn Forde to discuss the band's successful return, how rehearsals can be difficult when your drummer lives in Thailand, why lo…
00:47:09 |
Sat 18 Jun 2011
Word Podcast 174 - with Danny Baker
Danny Baker returns to the pod – with David Hepworth and Mark Ellen – having just got “the green light” after months of particularly unsavoury hospitalisation. Discover how he celebrated this news, m…
00:45:59 |
Wed 15 Jun 2011
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