843 Episodes

  1. Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records

    Published: 6/26/2025

  2. Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape onstage”

    Published: 6/25/2025

  3. 10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye

    Published: 6/23/2025

  4. When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre

    Published: 6/19/2025

  5. Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour

    Published: 6/16/2025

  6. The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations

    Published: 6/15/2025

  7. Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth

    Published: 6/12/2025

  8. Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years …

    Published: 6/10/2025

  9. Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé in a Stetson

    Published: 6/8/2025

  10. Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own

    Published: 6/6/2025

  11. Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger

    Published: 6/2/2025

  12. Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury still makes headlines

    Published: 6/1/2025

  13. Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of eight

    Published: 5/30/2025

  14. Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13

    Published: 5/29/2025

  15. Books rock stars want you to read, sacked drummers and how Dylan spent his birthday

    Published: 5/26/2025

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

    Published: 5/25/2025

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

    Published: 5/19/2025

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

    Published: 5/17/2025

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

    Published: 5/14/2025

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

    Published: 5/13/2025

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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.