854 Episodes

  1. Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Party 7”

    Published: 5/25/2023

  2. Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis

    Published: 5/24/2023

  3. Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?

    Published: 5/15/2023

  4. How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)

    Published: 5/9/2023

  5. Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!

    Published: 5/2/2023

  6. “Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance.”

    Published: 4/25/2023

  7. Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage

    Published: 4/18/2023

  8. John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”

    Published: 4/13/2023

  9. “Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground

    Published: 4/10/2023

  10. The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies

    Published: 4/8/2023

  11. Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"

    Published: 4/7/2023

  12. What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?

    Published: 4/6/2023

  13. Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s last fandangos

    Published: 4/5/2023

  14. Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business

    Published: 4/4/2023

  15. Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?

    Published: 3/29/2023

  16. 15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier (aged two) …

    Published: 3/22/2023

  17. Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?

    Published: 3/20/2023

  18. Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel culture

    Published: 3/15/2023

  19. For the love of Wayne Shorter & David Lindley - and are U2 really U2 without Larry Mullen?

    Published: 3/9/2023

  20. Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?

    Published: 3/5/2023

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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.