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
- 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
- Mark Kermode tells us stories about music in movies
- How many bands can you name every member of?
- The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21
- Led Zeppelin’s fight for attention and how they fudged their backstory
- Stones, Blondie, Iggy and songs that make a movie & why we loved Diane Keaton
- Ringo and why the Beatles wouldn’t have worked without him
- Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with poshness
- Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
- The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie
- The three London kids who invented rock style
- Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.
- Thea Gilmore on Joan Baez, Jake Thackray and Dave Pegg’s dog starting her career
- How pioneer tape-rat Roger Armstrong found vintage America a whole new audience
- Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-looking rock stars
- John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire
- Alex's star-studded week in Hollywood
- Peter Hammill on Bowie, other superfans & 47 albums of ‘self-sabotage and chaos’.
- Talking Heads, where they came from and where they went - with Jonathan Gould
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