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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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Talk Talk, a deep-dive tale of mystery and imagination

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The Clash, the Cramps and Penny Kiley’s teenage punk diaries

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Van Morrison’s agent writes crime fiction as the music business sleeps

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Andy Kershaw & Dylan’s jar of jam plus the things people do to get gigs

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The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’

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Who hasn’t had ‘work done’, how to spot AI and the stupidest thing we ever did

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How Tony Visconti keeps the Bowie flag flying

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Matt Johnson & the unique story of The The plus George Michael and the sunbed

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At home with Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & John Martyn in the golden year of 1970

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The Jarrett movie, Macca’s secret & when did standing at gigs start?

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The Clash story mapped by the places they lived, played, evolved … and shot pige...

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Mustn’t grumble! Songs with the essence of Englishness

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Neil Tennant revisits songs he’s written since the age of nine

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Shaun & Bez and other Odd Couples we love

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How A Hard Day’s Night ripped up the pop movie rulebook

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Bob Dylan and the Beatles, a tale of envy, affection and intense rivalry

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Mark Lewisohn and why writing the real Beatles story just got harder

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Albums we bought because we liked the title

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How Glenn Tilbrook transformed the life of Squeeze

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The Skids, Big Country and the unsettling story of Stuart Adamson

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Boston, Def Leppard, bad hair & the golden age of rock radio

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Was Bad Bunny at the Superbowl the greatest show ever staged?

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Andy Bown remembers the Herd, Judas Jump and 47 years in Status Quo

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How the album survived and why it satisfies the soul!

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Racy pulp paperbacks, teenage Joni and the BRIT School versus the age of the ama...

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David Bowie and the triumph, mystery and struggle of his third act

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Days with Bowie, Prince, the Stones, Hendrix & the Clash by David Sinclair

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The genius of Sly Dunbar & Catherine O’Hara plus Springsteen’s anthem and old Ne...

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Adele Bertei, New York’s art-rock explosion and Eno’s shopping list

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Miles Hunt of the Wonder Stuff - ‘I’d rather make people laugh than applaud’

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