

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.
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Oct 5, 2010 • 46min
Word Podcast 150 - with Devon Sproule & Paul Curreri
Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri join Mark Ellen and David Hepworth in the pod, while David talks to the men at De Wolde music about the joys of production music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 23, 2010 • 28min
Word Podcast 149 - with Sean Wilentz
David Hepworth speaks to Sean Wilentz on the phone from Los Angeles. Wilentz is professor of history at Princeton University, resident historian on Bob Dylan's website, and the author of 'Bob Dylan in America'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 16, 2010 • 41min
Word Podcast 148 - with Dom Joly
Dom Joly joins us in the pod to talk about his new book The Dark Tourist, Kate Mossman describes what it's like to share an ocean liner with a load of people who just want to boogie, and we talk to Andrew Losowsky about "Stranded", the magazine he put together when he was stuck in Ireland because of the Icelandic ash cloud. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 9, 2010 • 54min
Word Podcast 147 - with Phill Jupitus and Trevor Dann
Two old radio hands join us in the pod this week to talk about what’s been did and what’s been hid in the world of radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 2, 2010 • 11min
Word Podcast 146 - a quick chat with Andrew Harrison re: iTunes
Andrew Harrison reports back from last night's Apple unveiling. What does it all mean? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 27, 2010 • 53min
Word Podcast 145 - with CW Stoneking
This week's podcast features CW Stoneking, who arrived straight from the airport to play and talk to Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Fraser Lewry, plus concert industry watcher James Drury about the likelihood of the UK live business experiencing a meltdown such as has apparently occurred in America this summer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 11, 2010 • 33min
Word Podcast 144 - with Wilko Johnson
Wilko Johnson joins Mark Ellen, "Seventies" Mike Johnson and Fraser Lewry in the pod, with tales of the false economy of cheap suits, speed versus alcohol, going round to Strummer's house, seeing The MC5's Wayne Kramer sprayed gold, being left-handed before Hendrix, and the still painful story of his ejection from Dr Feelgood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 4, 2010 • 1h 4min
Word Podcast 143 - with Robin Ince
Robin Ince joins Kate Mossman and Mark Ellen to impersonate John Peel, discuss Mills & Boon, crab opera, 1970s stag films, Darwin's Origin Of Species and the Edinburgh Fringe, and eat Victoria sponge cake live. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 18, 2010 • 56min
Latitude Podcast II
In the second podcast direct from the Latitude site Kate Mossman talks to John Grant and Mark Ellen talks to promoter Melvin Benn. Subjects covered include: the importance of putting your poetry tent in the right place, translating in a New York hospital, Christmas discos in August, presenting a birthday cake on stage and why you can take Tom Jones out of showbiz but you can never take showbiz out of Tom Jones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 17, 2010 • 58min
The Latitude Podcast
Our first podcast from the site at Latitude features Rob Young writer of Electric Eden, and Geoff Lloyd, who's here broadcasting from the site for Absolute Radio. Recorded in the luxurious surroundings of our Portkabin audio suite, it covers Vaughan Williams, Mark's posh digs in Worbleswick, the correct response to a fellow camper who sings the blues in the middle of the night, The National, how to distinguish between a real beard and a fashion beard, how Tom Jones lets himself go at Christmas and the dark pact forged between Florence + The Machine and Claire's Accessories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


