Word In Your Ear
A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
865 Episodes
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Did rave kill dancing in couples? Stars seen in strange places?
Published: 11/11/2025 -
David Bowie and why we need him more than ever. Paul Morley looks back in wonder
Published: 11/6/2025 -
‘Bob Dylan is my father’ - and why Sam Sussman is convinced it’s true.
Published: 11/5/2025 -
Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey had a ‘manifesto for success’. Here’s how it worked
Published: 11/4/2025 -
Cowbells, maracas, gongs, castanets – classic percussion parts demonstrated!
Published: 11/3/2025 -
The Smiths’ Mike Joyce on triumph, gladioli & Morrissey when he was still ‘Steve’
Published: 11/2/2025 -
Records that sound unique and why all bands need a backlash
Published: 10/26/2025 -
Paul Young – “Big in the ‘80s! What lucky bastards we were!’
Published: 10/25/2025 -
Billy Bragg – 40 years, 2,700 gigs and what he learnt from Taylor Swift
Published: 10/22/2025 -
Mark Kermode tells us stories about music in movies
Published: 10/21/2025 -
How many bands can you name every member of?
Published: 10/19/2025 -
The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21
Published: 10/17/2025 -
Led Zeppelin’s fight for attention and how they fudged their backstory
Published: 10/14/2025 -
Stones, Blondie, Iggy and songs that make a movie & why we loved Diane Keaton
Published: 10/13/2025 -
Ringo and why the Beatles wouldn’t have worked without him
Published: 10/10/2025 -
Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with poshness
Published: 10/5/2025 -
Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
Published: 10/3/2025 -
The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie
Published: 10/1/2025 -
The three London kids who invented rock style
Published: 9/30/2025 -
Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.
Published: 9/28/2025
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.