

Word In Your Ear
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
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.
Episodes
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Oct 20, 2009 • 1h 8min
Word Podcast 115 with Danny Baker
Danny Baker talks about touring with Ian Dury, record shopping with Elton John, when Virgin used to be above a shoe shop, the trick David Bowie uses to avoid answering questions, what happened when a salesman called on Viv Stanshall, the greater glory of King Crimson and the fallacy peddled by punk. Mark Ellen and David Hepworth listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 14, 2009 • 47min
Word Podcast 114
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry discuss Amy Winehouse's bosom problems, Carly Simon's pension and Bob Dylan's winter wonderland. Plus your questions answered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 7, 2009 • 35min
Word Podcast 113
Andrew Harrison, Eamonn Forde and Fraser Lewry on Letterman, live albums, death metal, and why Lily Allen wins at the internet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 17, 2009 • 1h 4min
Word Podcast 112 - the smell of record shops
David Hepworth, Rob Fitzpatrick and Fraser Lewry on the things they'll miss about record shops and the things they won't. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 1, 2009 • 43min
Word podcast 111 (The Nelson)
In which Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry talk about: D-Day, the Gallagher family spat and the best place to get a rotary-valve flugelhorn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 20, 2009 • 48min
The Word Podcast is back from its holidays
Mark Ellen, Barry McIlheney, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry on Annie Leibowitz's mortgage difficulties, Bob Dylan's wandering around New Jersey and all sorts of other things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 30, 2009 • 51min
Word Podcast 109
Andrew Collins joins David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry to discuss our teenage TV crushes, classic cartoon images, what to do with an old VCR and what book not to take on a holiday in North Korea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 23, 2009 • 48min
Word Podcast 108
The Mercury Music Prize shortlist: an enticing menu of thrilling new listening or the musical equivalent of geography homework? Eamonn Forde, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry exchange their prejudices about the shortlist, look at the effect that Twitter has had on the opening weekends of movies and wonder how we'd feel if we were confronted by the paparazzi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 15, 2009 • 1h 3min
Podcast 107: College Ents Special
David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and the real Andy Murray talk about the days when the big bands played colleges, why everybody's so obsessed with 1969 and the sheer strangeness of a 19 year old without a mobile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 13, 2009 • 29min
Podcast 106: At war with the iPod generation
David Hepworth talks to Patrick Hennessey, the author of "The Junior Officers Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.