Word In Your Ear

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Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold Visit website › Music · EN · 1033 episodes · latest 2026-11-13

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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.

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n honour this week of an old pal, one of the greatest storytellers we ever met. In pursuit of at least two “genuine ripples”, we alight upon …… his priceless Q coverlines - ‘Kate Bush: booze, fags, blokes and me!’…
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Dylan and the Pope, the drummer on 42 Number 1s & rock stars who were teenage crims

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Richard Jobson on the Skids and the day Steve Jones burgled Francis Bacon

2026-11-05 · 35 min · Episode 985

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Dick Taylor, the Pretty Things and the four months he spent in the Stones

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2026-11-03 · 45 min · Episode 983

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Carl Palmer’s 64 years onstage and the ingenious way he’s touring as ELP

2026-10-30 · 54 min · Episode 981

Whenever Carl Palmer joined a band, he was head-hunted by a bigger one - the King Bees, Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster and, eventually, Emerson Lake & Palmer. We get a…
Joni Mitchell’s fascinating treasure trove of lost interviews with the BBC

2026-10-28 · 37 min · Episode 980

Tom Hagler works at the BBC with access to every TV and radio programme involving Joni Mitchell for 50 years, all full of revelations about her songs and the times she spent in London. So he transcribed the interviews –…

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Owner: Word In Your Ear
Oldest episode in feed: 03/2007 · over 19 years
Typical length: 43 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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