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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Latest Episode
Previous Episodes
- Fairytale of New York's full story & the imperishable genius of Steve Cropper
- The Beatles versus Capitol Records and ‘the greatest marketing hype in history’
- The Undertones are 50! And no-one’s more amazed than Damian O’Neill
- Jimmy Cliff, unseen Beatles and the greatest bassline on record!
- Boo Hewerdine’s funny and alarming account of real life on the road
- Legendary duos who met by chance, RIP Mani & ironing to gangsta rap
- Kula Shaker’s Crispian Mills had a colourful childhood
- The Beach Boys’ story gets more tangled by the minute
- What makes a rock star a ‘ledge’ & the daft rituals of the ‘70s disco
- Rock’s fascination with the Third Reich exposed by Daniel Rachel
- Paul Weller – ‘gloriously chippy’ – as seen by friends, family, fans and collaborators
- Did rave kill dancing in couples? Stars seen in strange places?
- David Bowie and why we need him more than ever. Paul Morley looks back in wonder
- ‘Bob Dylan is my father’ - and why Sam Sussman is convinced it’s true.
- Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey had a ‘manifesto for success’. Here’s how it worked
- Cowbells, maracas, gongs, castanets – classic percussion parts demonstrated!
- The Smiths’ Mike Joyce on triumph, gladioli & Morrissey when he was still ‘Steve’
- Records that sound unique and why all bands need a backlash
- Paul Young – “Big in the ‘80s! What lucky bastards we were!’
- Billy Bragg – 40 years, 2,700 gigs and what he learnt from Taylor Swift
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