Word In Your Ear
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
4.5from 79 ratings
- 1,018
- Episodes
- 107
- Transcribed
- 79
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2007
- First episode
- 10M
- YouTube views
About Word In Your Ear
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 (http://www.wiyelondon.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
- Category
- music · music · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Mar 2007
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
107 of 1,018 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Richard Jobson on the Skids and the day Steve Jones burgled Francis Bacon
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dick Taylor, the Pretty Things and the four months he spent in the Stones
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dylan Jones, past master of the long lunch, saw the music world from a restaurant table
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Richard Jobson on the Skids and the day Steve Jones burgled Francis Bacon
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it was so absurd considering the area we came from, which was a very working class mining community and very old school macho. And to have the courage to become a Hare Krishna monk in that environment was quite something. So, you know, he gave me the courage to just be who I was. […]
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- Richard Jobson
- Dick Taylor
- Dylan Jones
- Giles Fraser
- Carl Palmer
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- YouTube views
- 9,735,147
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 79 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 88
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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