848 Episodes

  1. Dylan Jones bangs the drum for 1975, an explosion of talent and creativity

    Published: 5/25/2025

  2. The great lost Beach Boys SMiLE album – David Leaf unravels rock’s Holy Grail

    Published: 5/19/2025

  3. The best songs written in seconds, Lennon’s legs and Springsteen’s chimes of freedom.

    Published: 5/17/2025

  4. Dennis Greaves, Nine Below Zero – old-school R&B, police and thieves and the agony of white clogs

    Published: 5/14/2025

  5. Peter Capaldi’s life in a teenage Glasgow punk band and a public apology to the Cocteau Twins

    Published: 5/13/2025

  6. Alan Parsons – from the rooftop of Savile Row to Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and some singing pigs

    Published: 5/12/2025

  7. Mom Rock v Dad Rock, the Oasis rumour mill and Kanye West’s devious dentist.

    Published: 5/11/2025

  8. Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California

    Published: 5/8/2025

  9. The greatest duet, rock cameos in Miami Vice and the rebirth of Mississippi John Hurt

    Published: 5/5/2025

  10. Al Murray and James Holland talk the ending of the war in 1945 and the afterlife of The Beatles

    Published: 5/2/2025

  11. Derek Shulman – when Simon Dupree and Gentle Giant were “the darlings of the English Mafia”

    Published: 4/30/2025

  12. The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!

    Published: 4/29/2025

  13. Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents

    Published: 4/23/2025

  14. Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan

    Published: 4/21/2025

  15. Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache

    Published: 4/20/2025

  16. Dave Pegg, Fairport’s “longest-serving member” (fnarr!) looks back at hippie chaos and old heroes

    Published: 4/17/2025

  17. Withering reviews of famous albums, Jaws versus Jeeves and the genius of Blondie’s Clem Burke

    Published: 4/15/2025

  18. Why Sparks’ Russell Mael preferred British acts to the ‘faux honesty’ of Laurel Canyon

    Published: 4/8/2025

  19. Seven ‘lost’ Springsteen albums, romance in sitcoms and the age of spectacle

    Published: 4/8/2025

  20. Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’.

    Published: 4/2/2025

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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.