843 Episodes

  1. How do songs become terrace anthems?

    Published: 7/13/2021

  2. Flat Rabbit, Mandible Rumpus ... what makes a band name work?

    Published: 7/6/2021

  3. Bob Geldof: an unmissable hour of insight into rock stardom

    Published: 7/3/2021

  4. Rock band gangs you want to join

    Published: 6/29/2021

  5. If the England Squad were a rock band which would they be?

    Published: 6/21/2021

  6. DJ Princess Diana

    Published: 6/14/2021

  7. Joni Mitchell's golden month remembered

    Published: 6/8/2021

  8. Favourite critics and pop star stamps

    Published: 5/31/2021

  9. Bernie Marsden on the blues boom, "mailbox money", UFO and Whitesnake

    Published: 5/26/2021

  10. The Bob Dylan million dollar 80th birthday bash

    Published: 5/24/2021

  11. Richard Thompson on Fairport and Sandy Denny's "Gustav Mahler emotional see-saw"

    Published: 5/19/2021

  12. Burglary and bluebeat in a brilliant new Madness documentary

    Published: 5/18/2021

  13. Joel Selvin on "a sylvan moment in Hollywood history"

    Published: 5/13/2021

  14. Bob Marley RIP (who died 40 years ago on May 11)

    Published: 5/11/2021

  15. Rickie Lee Jones promotes "thumping good read"!

    Published: 5/6/2021

  16. Does every act have a gimmick?

    Published: 5/4/2021

  17. The eternal battles between Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf

    Published: 4/27/2021

  18. On Jagger's ropey new single and what made the Stones a dance band

    Published: 4/22/2021

  19. Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley on the folklore of the Fall

    Published: 4/17/2021

  20. Original gangs that are still together

    Published: 4/12/2021

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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.