Word In Your Ear

Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
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Oct 5, 2011 • 37min

Word Podcast 190 - the Gastropodcast

Our own Andrew Harrison and celebrated food photographer Patrice de Villiers join us to talk about Love Music Love Food: The Rock Star Cookbook, a mammoth undertaking published in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. It features the likes of Brett Anderson, Noel Gallagher, Mick Hucknall, Cliff Richard, Tinie Tempah, Paul Weller and many others talking about and being photographed with their favourite food. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 27, 2011 • 42min

Word Podcast 189 - with Jonathan Coe

We're joined in the pod by author Jonathan Coe, he of The Rotter's Club. We talk prog in riveting detail, look back at his days as a rock hack at The Wire, explain the use of music in Billy Wilder movies, and hear a a newly recorded track from his reformed college loungecore act The Peer Group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 22, 2011 • 46min

Word Podcast 188 - the Bowiecast

We're joined in the pod by two card-carrying Bowie experts – Peter Doggett - author of the superb new book "The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The ‘70" and Word’s long-serving associate editor Paul Du Noyer. On the way we learn Bowie’s tortuously complicated childhood, his unproduced rock opera, the lost recordings and the four times Paul got to interview him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 15, 2011 • 45min

Word Podcast 187 - The 40 Noises That Built Pop

Rhodri Marsden visits us in the cupboard to talk about his "40 Noises That Built Pop" feature, to reveal how some of the sounds in the list were arrived at and the instruments that gave birth to them. Also up for discussion: Rhodri's first date hell Twitter sensation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 10, 2011 • 41min

Word Podcast 186 - The Queencast

Kate Mossman joins us in the pod to talk about being obsessed with Queen when her classmates were into Nirvana, and how you can never assume that young people go along with what their generation appears to be going along with. Plus: is picking the music for your own funeral the poor man's Desert Island Discs? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 3, 2011 • 58min

Word Podcast 185 - with Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby joins us to talk about working with Trevor Horn, David Bowie, Prefab Sprout and Joni Mitchell; operating as musical director of TED, spending an evening at Michael Jackson's, making money through polyphonic ringtones and just generally trying to do things in a different way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 17, 2011 • 54min

Word Podcast 184 - with David Ford

David Ford joins us in the podcast to talk about his terrific new book, I Choose This, which proves there's no success like failure, and to reveal how Jeff Buckley's influence on an entire generation of musicians wasn't entirely benign. Also: Kate Mossman introduces Amy LaVere. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 26, 2011 • 50min

Word Podcast 183 - Amy Winehouse, and our boat trip

Jude Rogers and Kate Mossman join us in the podcast to talk about the short life and sad death of Amy Winehouse. Also in this edition: our Sunday afternoon cruise down the Thames with Neil Finn & C.W. Stoneking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 19, 2011 • 50min

Word Podcast 182 - The Britpopcast

Our final Latitude recording: Andrew Harrison is joined by Stuart Maconie and Louise Wener to look back at Britpop: why it happened, what is was like, and where it all went wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 19, 2011 • 42min

Word Podcast 180 - Latitude Day Two, with Robin Ince & TMBG

Robin Ince joins us in the Word lounge to talk about Mills & Boon and why Robert Smith should never be a crowd marshall, and the chaps from They Might Be Giants talk to David Hepworth and answer audience questions about set lists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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