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Word In Your Ear

Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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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 po...

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A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test

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Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”

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"Pop music + distance = sadness"

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For the love of Charlie Watts

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John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s a...

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From Tom T Hall to the Weeley Festival by way of Una Stubbs

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Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Danny Baker

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The extraordinary life of Louis Armstrong plus George Harrison rebooted

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Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Mark Lewisohn

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The mysterious connection between Zappa and Sparks

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Amy Winehouse, XTC and the joy of "re-loved CDs"

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Word in The Park #2: Lesley-Ann Jones remembers John Entwistle’s riotous funeral

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Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Gary Crowley

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How do songs become terrace anthems?

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Jul 13, 202148:22pending

Flat Rabbit, Mandible Rumpus ... what makes a band name work?

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Jul 6, 202137:58pending

Bob Geldof: an unmissable hour of insight into rock stardom

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Jul 3, 20211:17:15pending

Rock band gangs you want to join

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Jun 29, 202147:14pending

If the England Squad were a rock band which would they be?

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Jun 21, 202141:11pending

DJ Princess Diana

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Joni Mitchell's golden month remembered

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Favourite critics and pop star stamps

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May 31, 202141:29pending

Bernie Marsden on the blues boom, "mailbox money", UFO and Whitesnake

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May 26, 202148:29pending

The Bob Dylan million dollar 80th birthday bash

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May 24, 202152:10pending

Richard Thompson on Fairport and Sandy Denny's "Gustav Mahler emotional see-saw"

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May 19, 202147:10pending

Burglary and bluebeat in a brilliant new Madness documentary

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May 18, 202140:59pending

Joel Selvin on "a sylvan moment in Hollywood history"

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May 13, 202136:15pending

Bob Marley RIP (who died 40 years ago on May 11)

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May 11, 202142:05pending

Rickie Lee Jones promotes "thumping good read"!

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Does every act have a gimmick?

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The eternal battles between Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf

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Apr 27, 202133:19pending

On Jagger's ropey new single and what made the Stones a dance band

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Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley on the folklore of the Fall

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Apr 17, 202138:09pending

Original gangs that are still together

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Apr 12, 202146:41pending

What pop music will still be around in 200 years' time?

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Apr 6, 202156:07pending

"It ain’t 'alf been a gas this time!"

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Mar 29, 202143:51pending

A 1971 Special on Nick Drake and Led Zeppelin at the Nottingham Boat Club

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Mar 25, 202141:36pending

The enduring magic of the mixtape

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Mar 15, 202147:41pending

The undignified history of the Ponytail In Rock

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Mar 8, 202157:06pending

Happy 50th, Nick Drake and the Stones 'farewell' tour!

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Mar 1, 20211:00:48pending

A guided tour chez Dolly Parton!

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Feb 23, 202146:08pending

The Greatest Love Songs Ever Written

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Feb 15, 202146:32pending

Tom Lehrer, payola and the Midnight Train to Georgia

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Feb 8, 202142:59pending

The story about Phil Collins, George Harrison and the congas ...

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Feb 1, 202158:28pending

Where Dolly and Phil Spector meet PG Wodehouse ...

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Jan 27, 202155:23pending

It's all gone Sea Shanty!

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Jan 18, 202149:09pending

Neil Young and the concert that invented 'the whoop'

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Jan 11, 202142:41pending

The priceless mishaps of Fleetwood Mac

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Jan 7, 202144:20pending

To the sunlit uplands of the new Let It Be movie!

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Dec 28, 202045:27pending

*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 365 - to the sunlit uplands of the new Let It Be mov...

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Word Podcast 364 - in stout defence of the Bee Gees

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