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 173
Adrift in the pod this week are Mark Ellen, Kate Mossman and Fraser Lewry, who discuss a night out at Desert Island Discs, interviews that went wrong, and take Qs from The Massive about 100 issues of…
00:56:43 |
Sat 04 Jun 2011
Word Podcast 172 - The Bobcast
Now Bob Dylan's seventy so it seems only decent to dedicate a podcast to him, his enduring fascination and his work. In this we're joined by Andy Gill, our resident Dylan scholar, author of Bob Dylan…
01:04:37 |
Tue 24 May 2011
Word Podcast 171 - with Van Dyke Parks
The magnificent Van Dyke Parks enters the pod to deliver wry and extremely fond and funny memories of working with Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Randy Newman, Brian Wilson, Joanna Newsom and his brief …
00:59:09 |
Thu 12 May 2011
Word Podcast 170 - with Neil Tennant
Neil Tennant joins the Word podcast where he reminisces about the days when he was "Doctor Bitz", talks about the most ridiculous things the Pet Shop Boys have been asked to do, discloses why they're…
00:56:54 |
Thu 05 May 2011
Word Podcast 169 - with Delta Maid and Daniel Tashian
This week's 'cast features guest appearance from Delta Maid, who talks to Mark Ellen and Kate Mossman about how you can get the blues in Liverpool, and Daniel Tashian, the leader of The Silver Seas f…
01:00:33 |
Thu 21 Apr 2011
Word Podcast 168 - with Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe on meeting Keith Moon, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson and recalling – in agonising detail – the moment the fresh-out-of-jail Keith Richards joined Rockpile at New York’s Bottom Line. Include…
00:59:48 |
Fri 15 Apr 2011
Word Podcast 167: Top Of The Pops Special
Janice Long, Jude Rogers and Andrew Harrison convene in the pod to discuss Top Of The Pops, that Michael Jackson statue, and the t-shirts of rock.
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00:47:59 |
Fri 08 Apr 2011
Word Podcast 166 - with Christian Ward
Christian Ward joins us this week to discuss what happened to singers who can enunciate, work out what the deuce Elton John is singing about in "Sacrifice", talk about the links between British pop a…
00:49:27 |
Fri 25 Mar 2011
Word Podcast 165 - with Ian McMillan
Ian McMillan joins us in the pod to talk about: playing John Cage’s silence on Desert Island Discs, the only way to be a football supporter and stay sane, the lyrics of Pete Sinfield and the usefulne…
00:48:05 |
Thu 17 Mar 2011
Word Podcast 164: Precious Memories and Inky Fingers
Pete Paphides joins David Hepworth and Mark Ellen in the pod with a load of old music papers. It's all here: bad puns, mistaken critical judgements, and momentous news announcements tucked away at th…
00:57:50 |
Fri 11 Mar 2011
Word Podcast 163: cough buttons in Japanese toilets
Andrew Collins drops in to help kick around a few thoughts about comedians doing karaoke, the new Radiohead album, whether Krautrock would be more popular if it had happened 40 years later, and tips …
00:48:43 |
Fri 25 Feb 2011
Word Podcast 162: From the Brits to Beechams
Mark Ellen, Fraser Lewry and David Hepworth on the effective apartheid between the r&b and folkie factions currently making up British pop, why British acts can't make speeches, and why people hate M…
00:45:12 |
Thu 17 Feb 2011
Word Podcast 161: Gary Moore remembered
Rob Fitzpatrick talks about meeting Elton John in the flesh, Roy Wilkinson describes his father's role in the family business, which is British Sea Power, and we talk to people who worked with Gary M…
00:31:05 |
Thu 10 Feb 2011
Word Podcast 160: what does a Wichita Lineman actually do?
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry wonder whether anybody is really heartbroken when bands break up, wonder what a Wichita Lineman does and why bands pick such uncommercial names, and answer…
00:59:38 |
Fri 04 Feb 2011
Word Podcast 159: Keith Moon & good spelling
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry on Iron Maiden: Flight 666, your questions, class and pop, "Seventies" Mike Johnson's fiendishly difficult rock and roll spelling test and the drumming gen…
00:45:33 |
Fri 28 Jan 2011
Word Podcast 158: Is rock dead?
In which Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry chew on the big topics de jour: is rock dead? And did the 80s kill proper music? Plus, David Hepworth comes up with a list of great records made i…
00:50:48 |
Fri 14 Jan 2011
Word Podcast 157: Elton's sunglasses & Richard Thompson's beret
David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and Fraser Lewry feature in the first podcast of 2011 which includes: Captain Beefheart remembered and mis-remembered, the likelihood of anyone with four drawers devoted to…
00:47:31 |
Fri 07 Jan 2011
Word Podcast 156
This week's guest was snowed in and so David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and Fraser Lewry sort out previously unfinished business.
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00:46:53 |
Fri 03 Dec 2010
Word Podcast 155 - with Will MacDonald
This week we're joined by Will "Wiiill" Macdonald, who talksl about his time as the producer of TFI Friday at the height of Britpop.
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00:52:42 |
Tue 16 Nov 2010
Word Podcast 154
In which Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry review last week's brilliant "Word In Your Ear" gig, report back from viewings of Bruce Springsteen's "The Promise" and Rush's "Beyond The Lighted…
00:56:57 |
Tue 09 Nov 2010
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