Word In Your Ear

By 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 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.

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Episode Date
How Al Stewart struck gold, the folk boom and a flat-share with Paul Simon
Dec 19, 2024
‘Mystique is dead’: what Gary Kemp learnt in 40 years of making and selling records
Dec 18, 2024
The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles
Dec 17, 2024
The greatest sax solo, YMCA, musical one-night stands and Tom Hanks’ wise advice
Dec 09, 2024
How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits
Dec 08, 2024
The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets & Trump’s guitars
Dec 02, 2024
How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them
Dec 01, 2024
Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual delight
Nov 29, 2024
Danny Baker - the panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote with a taste of his upcoming tour
Nov 27, 2024
The Band Aid recording, the birth of the tape loop and the power of the movie theme tune
Nov 25, 2024
How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong
Nov 23, 2024
John Lydon on the genius of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and the fine art of Spoken Word
Nov 20, 2024
The poshest pop star ever, music in Xmas ads and song lyrics we can still recite
Nov 18, 2024
Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman
Nov 13, 2024
Peter Perrett of the Only Ones – teenage life, a wondrous return and a 35-year lost weekend.
Nov 12, 2024
Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blockbuster
Nov 11, 2024
The genius of George Harrison and why he’s still underrated
Nov 09, 2024
Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds - his Year Zero moment, Imposter Syndrome and seeing the Beatles (aged 7)
Nov 04, 2024
Kraftwerk, Cream, Nirvana, savage reviews, fantasy girlfriends and a naked Nick Cave ‘plush doll’
Nov 03, 2024
Life with the Lennons, fame, friendship, the FBI and the Lost Weekend – by Elliot Mintz.
Oct 30, 2024
How Goth took over, farewell Phil Lesh and the curse of teenage stardom
Oct 28, 2024
When Mark King of Level 42 was the 11 year-old singing drummer in a novelty act
Oct 25, 2024
King Crimson, red hair dye and a singing Jack Russell: the boisterous memoir of Jakko Jakszyk
Oct 22, 2024
Obsessive fans, Dylan’s reading list and how Taylor Swift tickets are the new codeword for wealth
Oct 21, 2024
Britpop, its peaks and its spiritual godfather: a Golden Age rebooted by Miranda Sawyer
Oct 17, 2024
Zappa and Elvis as fathers (!), Billy Joel’s house sale and the curse of too much choice
Oct 14, 2024
Hugh Cornwell on how the drummer has the best seat in the house
Oct 10, 2024
Kris Kristofferson, a lost Tom Petty film and rock stars and the curse of the selfie
Oct 07, 2024
How Christine McVie saw Fleetwood Mac and the real reason she left them – by Lesley-Ann Jones
Oct 04, 2024
Nick Heyward dressed like Cary Grant – then the Jam, XTC and Talking Heads. “It’s all about clothes, hair and shoes.”
Oct 03, 2024
In the studio with Nick Drake, Fairport, John Martyn & the String Band: John Wood remembers a golden age
Oct 02, 2024
Ian Hunter – joining Mott The Hoople, Bowie, Hamburg and being “enthused into craziness”.
Oct 01, 2024
Bryan Ferry, Maggie Smith and why Ian Hunter is a movie in waiting
Sep 30, 2024
When Cocteau Twins followed the Ramones onstage and why 1979 was the Golden Age - by Simon Raymonde
Sep 27, 2024
The deep secret of Abba’s “music without nostalgia” and the time they met the Pistols
Sep 25, 2024
Fond memories of lost ‘80s London, Morrissey v Marr and the film they should make about Toyah
Sep 23, 2024
Swinging London & the Wombles seen from an electric-blue Rolls-Royce. Mike Batt looks back
Sep 20, 2024
Joe Boyd – Little Richard, Nick Drake, Tight Fit and why everything sounds the way it does
Sep 18, 2024
Screaming Jay Hawkins 75, Dave Grohl 1
Sep 16, 2024
One Day author David Nicholls – prog rock, Live Aid and making tapes for girls
Sep 13, 2024
Nick Lowe – war stories, wise decisions and the event in 1970 that made him think again
Sep 12, 2024
The Buskers’ Hall of Fame – from Moondog and Billy Bragg to Don Partridge and “the skating Sikh”.
Sep 10, 2024
Who should follow John Lydon with a Spoken Word spectacular?
Sep 09, 2024
David Hepworth on the glory, comedy and tragedy of rock stars who can't retire
Sep 04, 2024
The Oasis reunion – feuds, cash, symbolism and the desire to repair our imperfect lives
Aug 31, 2024
Are comedians more competitive than rock stars?
Aug 28, 2024
Johnny Beatle’, early Blondie, Led Zeppelin’s plane and seven fabulous years at the Melody Maker.
Aug 22, 2024
One-word rock star mimicry, bands who shouldn’t reform & the best thing about Taylor Swift
Aug 19, 2024
The extraordinary story of Arthur Lee, Love and the 1966 flop which became a hit for the ages
Aug 15, 2024
Buddy Holly airlines and the inimitable Bob Dylan
Aug 12, 2024
“Pop music is 80 per cent about hair”, remaking classic albums and why CDs are so hard to love
Aug 04, 2024
Queen, Bowie and other residents of Rockfield Studios remembered by the cook’s daughter
Aug 02, 2024
57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelations
Jul 31, 2024
Ron Sexsmith doesn’t need a teleprompter. He can do 40 Dylan songs at the drop of a hat
Jul 30, 2024
Without John Mayall … no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo or Led Zeppelin?
Jul 29, 2024
Best album sleeves, what’s ruined singing and pop as ‘empowerment porn’
Jul 21, 2024
Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?
Jul 18, 2024
Backstage at Live Aid, the first Knebworth and bands that don’t get on
Jul 15, 2024
How Joni Mitchell joined the boys’ club and why we don’t need a comeback – by Ann Powers
Jul 12, 2024
Twist And Shout? Spiral Scratch? Corey duBrowa celebrates the best and rarest EPs ever made
Jul 08, 2024
What songs should be longer or shorter?
Jul 07, 2024
Dylan Jones – Clegg’s women, Hague’s pints and “the wiring behind celebrity culture”
Jul 03, 2024
Happy accidents, whooping at gigs and why the album review star system doesn’t work anymore
Jun 30, 2024
Pop football chants, Reg ‘Reg’ Snipton sings Joni Mitchell & the tale of John Lennon’s watch
Jun 24, 2024
Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake
Jun 21, 2024
The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are
Jun 18, 2024
For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve
Jun 17, 2024
Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
Jun 15, 2024
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Jun 11, 2024
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
Jun 09, 2024
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
Jun 08, 2024
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Jun 06, 2024
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
Jun 03, 2024
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
May 26, 2024
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
May 22, 2024
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
May 21, 2024
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
May 20, 2024
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
May 19, 2024
Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
May 16, 2024
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
May 15, 2024
Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
May 14, 2024
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
May 12, 2024
The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
May 05, 2024
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
May 03, 2024
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
Apr 29, 2024
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
Apr 28, 2024
The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
Apr 21, 2024
Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
Apr 15, 2024
Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
Apr 11, 2024
Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
Apr 10, 2024
Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
Apr 09, 2024
The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
Apr 08, 2024
Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
Mar 31, 2024
How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey
Mar 28, 2024
Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”
Mar 26, 2024
Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune
Mar 25, 2024
Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)
Mar 24, 2024
Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond
Mar 22, 2024
Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?
Mar 20, 2024
The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
Mar 18, 2024
Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999
Mar 17, 2024
Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!
Mar 14, 2024
It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!
Mar 12, 2024
Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair
Mar 11, 2024
How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same
Mar 10, 2024
Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?
Mar 04, 2024
For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”
Mar 03, 2024
Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans
Feb 29, 2024
The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
Feb 25, 2024
Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
Feb 23, 2024
For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury
Feb 20, 2024
Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python
Feb 19, 2024
Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys
Feb 18, 2024
Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle
Feb 14, 2024
Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head
Feb 12, 2024
Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell
Feb 04, 2024
Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued
Jan 28, 2024
TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?
Jan 22, 2024
Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records
Jan 21, 2024
Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space
Jan 15, 2024
Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin
Jan 13, 2024
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock
Jan 07, 2024
Noel Coward, Gallagher & Squire’s superpower summit & the art of the Bob Dylan backbeat
Dec 31, 2023
Hipgnosis album art, the hardest working man in showbiz & the moment the world went mad
Dec 18, 2023
Denny Laine, the Move’s catastrophic court case & the man who's made 700 albums in 2 years
Dec 10, 2023
The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Kenneth Womack
Dec 05, 2023
A drink to Shane MacGowan, Spinal Tap rebooted and lunch with Randy Newman
Dec 04, 2023
Pauline Murray’s kids have finally found out what Mum did in the Punk Wars
Dec 03, 2023
Glen Matlock and the ‘Sliding Doors moment’ that sparked the punk rock fuse
Dec 01, 2023
Does anyone know more about rock stars than Jenny Boyd?
Nov 29, 2023
Who’s next for an AI movie, first use of sampling & rock stars in unsuitable clothes
Nov 27, 2023
Kanye West & the billion dollar gym pumps plus the album sleeve that changed the game
Nov 21, 2023
The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black and white”
Nov 18, 2023
Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Jude Rogers
Nov 14, 2023
Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why
Nov 13, 2023
Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea
Nov 09, 2023
The KLF torched £1m "and are haunted by it daily". John Higgs knows why
Nov 07, 2023
What did we think of the Beatles' last hurrah?
Nov 05, 2023
For Ian Broudie & the Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions' has been a blessing and a curse
Nov 03, 2023
Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath
Nov 02, 2023
The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio One memo!
Oct 30, 2023
Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writing songs about
Oct 23, 2023
The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Spence
Oct 21, 2023
Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and a luverly bunch of coconuts, by Peter Watts
Oct 19, 2023
Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to protest music?
Oct 17, 2023
Jarvis v Jacko and why drummers are like goalkeepers. Let Pulp’s Nick Banks be your guide
Oct 12, 2023
Smoking on album sleeves, Smash Hits The Musical and records you own but have never played
Oct 09, 2023
Echo & the Bunnymen, why the rock press were “divs” and the secret of good hair by Will Sergeant
Oct 08, 2023
An Insider’s Guide To Goth by Cathi Unsworth (via Cruella De Vil and the Cure)
Oct 04, 2023
Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack
Oct 03, 2023
Gary Numan, unlikely sex symbols and U2’s £1,000 night in the desert
Oct 02, 2023
Does Gary Numan regret throwing the glo-stick that hit David Bowie?
Oct 01, 2023
Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record shop of your dreams”.
Sep 27, 2023
Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t have any of their records
Sep 25, 2023
The “unknown woman” in McCartney’s photos, the Human League and a new U2 game
Sep 18, 2023
Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Macca and more
Sep 17, 2023
The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos
Sep 12, 2023
Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews
Sep 06, 2023
What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sinead and Iggy Pop
Sep 05, 2023
Which acts will “go down in history” and what matters more than their music?
Sep 03, 2023
Bob Dylan - why he signs autographs left-handed and other mysteries solved by Ray Padgett
Sep 02, 2023
Achtung Baby, rock fantasy friends and the band that inspired the Bad News Tour
Aug 29, 2023
Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake history” of Punk
Aug 21, 2023
Sinead O’Connor, that Morrissey outburst, over-long films and the pitiful plight of roadies
Jul 31, 2023
Tales of Hipgnosis sleeves (and the new film) and why the world needs Steely Dan more than ever
Jul 24, 2023
PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17
Jul 19, 2023
The things Bruce and Bing have in common and the adventures of Punch in 1976 clubland
Jul 17, 2023
Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him
Jul 14, 2023
Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “cider like turps”
Jul 13, 2023
Wham!, Rock Follies and lost ‘70s prog foot-soldiers Renia – we will remember them!
Jul 10, 2023
Cocteau Twins song or Farrow & Ball paint colour? plus the day Beatlemania began
Jul 03, 2023
Grotesque/brilliant sleeves plus does upping the price make a ticket more desirable?
Jun 27, 2023
Harvey Lisberg – managing 10cc, meeting Elvis and “Peter Noone’s extra tooth”
Jun 23, 2023
Record shops in movies and what Glenda Jackson did that no other actor ever dared try
Jun 21, 2023
Revenge songs, Nick Drake and that sorry tale about Primal Scream
Jun 18, 2023
Word In The Park 2023 #4 – Clare Grogan's adventures in TV, film and music
Jun 16, 2023
Word In The Park 2023: How the Beatles and James Bond shaped us all
Jun 15, 2023
Word In The Park 2023 #2 – 60 years of the Bee Gees with Bob Stanley
Jun 11, 2023
Word In The Park 2023: 60 years of the Stones with Lesley-Ann Jones
Jun 08, 2023
What bands are becoming unfashionable?
Jun 06, 2023
Which is the most two-faced world - movies, music or daytime TV?
May 28, 2023
Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Party 7”
May 25, 2023
Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
May 24, 2023
Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
May 15, 2023
How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
May 09, 2023
Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!
May 02, 2023
“Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance.”
Apr 25, 2023
Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage
Apr 18, 2023
John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
Apr 13, 2023
“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground
Apr 10, 2023
The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
Apr 08, 2023
Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
Apr 07, 2023
What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?
Apr 06, 2023
Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s last fandangos
Apr 05, 2023
Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business
Apr 04, 2023
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?
Mar 29, 2023
15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier (aged two) …
Mar 22, 2023
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?
Mar 20, 2023
Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel culture
Mar 15, 2023
For the love of Wayne Shorter & David Lindley - and are U2 really U2 without Larry Mullen?
Mar 09, 2023
Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?
Mar 05, 2023
Was the pop boom of 1996-2006 a comedy or a tragedy?
Mar 02, 2023
What the Beatles said about the Stones plus the most expensive live music in London
Feb 28, 2023
Was Chuck Berry the strangest man in the history of rock?
Feb 27, 2023
Word Down Your Way: 15 minutes with Mark Everett – E from Eels - about shows he's seen and played
Feb 26, 2023
What’s the best age to be and when are we at our most stupid?
Feb 22, 2023
Burt Bacharach, Waters v Gilmour and how to save the BRITS
Feb 16, 2023
15 minutes with Midge Ure about shows he's seen and played
Feb 09, 2023
George Harrison and the T-Bone steak, rock fantasy football teams & spot the AI lyrics!
Feb 07, 2023
Ron Sexsmith - heading your way in April – remembers “life-changing” shows seen over the years
Feb 06, 2023
Joel De’ath, “the Indiana Jones of rare vinyl”, describes his hunt for the Holy Grail
Feb 05, 2023
Peter Asher: singer, producer, manager, main role model for Austin Powers
Feb 02, 2023
Farewell Tom Verlaine – plus terrible records we can’t help loving
Feb 01, 2023
The Long Ryders are heading your way - and it all began with a “red negligee” …
Jan 29, 2023
Farewell David Crosby plus “classic” records that leave us cold
Jan 26, 2023
Suzanne Vega: she started at Carnegie Hall and she's coming to a town near you in February
Jan 24, 2023
Jeff Beck “had a boom-tish anecdote about every step of his life”
Jan 18, 2023
Tony King – friend, adviser and confidante: you can see why the Beatles, Stones and Elton thought he was the best company imaginable
Jan 17, 2023
The greatest singer of all time? (we know the answer)
Jan 09, 2023
The transformational role of the bus in ‘60s pop: discuss!
Jan 01, 2023
The deliciously eccentric life and art of Ivor Cutler by his biographer Bruce Lindsay
Dec 28, 2022
The things rock made us wear
Dec 21, 2022
Strokes producer Gordon Raphael on the serendipitous creation of 'Is This It'
Dec 20, 2022
Jet Black, exotic Americans and Oscar Hammerstein’s joke
Dec 12, 2022
Word Down Your Way: Danny Baker with a taste of his thunderous one-man stand-up circus, back on the road in 2023
Dec 11, 2022
Stories Christine McVie told us - including “Freddie King fixed my puncture”
Dec 05, 2022
Phil Jump tells the story of the legendary Badlands - and the day he took Steve Van Zandt to Brian Jones’s grave
Dec 03, 2022
A farewell to Wilko – “Dr Feelgood didn’t play the music, the music played them.”
Nov 28, 2022
Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass”
Nov 27, 2022
If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
Nov 23, 2022
Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
Nov 17, 2022
Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import
Nov 09, 2022
Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stewart
Nov 04, 2022
Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever made?
Nov 01, 2022
Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
Oct 28, 2022
What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
Oct 27, 2022
Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
Oct 26, 2022
Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
Oct 24, 2022
All of your rock heroes have had work done
Oct 19, 2022
King Crimson, Dave Vanian’s shoe and seeing one of the world’s most famous women on a train
Oct 12, 2022
50 years of Nuggets, Ian Brown’s karaoke and is there a band name worse than Jealous Nostril?
Oct 05, 2022
Hilary Mantel, Zappa track or ad slogan and the day Beefheart sold Aldous Huxley a vacuum-cleaner
Sep 28, 2022
Our farewell to the most famous person in the world (and the story of a brief encounter)
Sep 09, 2022
You’re not going to Duran Duran’s Halloween party dressed like that!
Sep 05, 2022
Celebrity mash-ups! An afternoon with Billy Joel, Ivanka Trump, Bono, Geldof and Rupert Murdoch
Aug 31, 2022
The horror, the horror! Why you MUST see the new Woodstock ’99 documentary
Aug 10, 2022
In praise of Bernard Cribbins, Clive James and the noble art of guitar-smashing
Aug 03, 2022
Why half the people at a gig don't really want to be there
Jul 24, 2022
Dave Grohl reaches ‘Meldrew age’, Be Here Now’s 25th birthday and the sex life of Dave Davies
Jul 21, 2022
How much of ‘Indie’ is just shoes and hair?
Jul 11, 2022
Chris Blackwell remembers the “underdogs, rejects and misfits” he signed to Island Records
Jul 08, 2022
Danny Baker and Graham Gouldman at our live McCartney 80th birthday special!
Jul 04, 2022
Paul McCartney in the Park: our 80th birthday special (Part One!)
Jul 02, 2022
What links The Day Of The Jackal, Supertramp, the Sun and James Callaghan?
Jun 28, 2022
The new Elvis movie and why we loved it
Jun 20, 2022
Why music is largely about everything but music
Jun 14, 2022
Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and how to ‘rockwash’ your tarnished reputation
Jun 07, 2022
Has any actor played a rock star convincingly?
May 31, 2022
You spent HOW MUCH on speakers?
May 23, 2022
Can bands still “sell out”? - plus 50 years of Exile On Main Street and RIP the iPod
May 17, 2022
The world’s rarest records and the sartorial splendour of the satin tour jacket
May 12, 2022
Kate Rusby (12) bought Bon Jovi tapes on hire purchase from Casa Disco in Barnsley
May 11, 2022
It’s our fantasy seven-decade Queen’s Jubilee line -up!
May 03, 2022
You’re either a t-shirt act or a non t-shirt act: discuss
Apr 26, 2022
Which band played the Old Grey Whistle Test and was then completely forgotten?
Apr 22, 2022
‘Streaming Killed the Skit Track’ plus Toastface Grillah and the Sgt Peppermill
Apr 13, 2022
We spot Will “Slapper” Smith’s biggest mistake at the Oscars and salute Ben Sidran’s foot
Apr 04, 2022
No Top Of The Pops. No NME or Smash Hits covers. What do bands dream of now?
Mar 28, 2022
How did ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ get released without a parental advisory sticker?
Mar 24, 2022
There’s only been one truly original group and we know who they are
Mar 14, 2022
Which bands were ALL good–looking? 15 contenders considered...
Mar 07, 2022
Why $15m for Britney Spears’ memoir is “a bargain” and the curious tale of A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Feb 28, 2022
Why do all bands seem ludicrous apart from the ones you personally like?
Feb 21, 2022
Does anyone capture the spirit of a place better than Van Morrison’s Belfast? – plus some underrated ‘70s tracks
Feb 14, 2022
The story of Don Henley’s the Boys of Summer, £10k headphones and ‘I’m Getting Buried In The Morning’ …
Feb 08, 2022
Morrissey v Marr, Neil Young v Spotify, Albarn v Swift – it’s a Pop Tiffs special!
Jan 31, 2022
The pleasing eccentricities of Jonathan Richman plus Natalie Umbrella-Stand, Christina Aqualibra and “Neil Aspinall: The Movie”
Jan 24, 2022
Ronnie Spector, the Day Of The Jackal and why no-one screams at musicians with beards
Jan 17, 2022
The inventor of the rock logo and why Rick Wakeman’s owed a fortune
Jan 10, 2022
The Summer Of Soul movie, Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense and listening to 1,000 albums a year
Jan 03, 2022
Rock memoirs that need to be written, the Porridge Christmas Special and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
Dec 19, 2021
Mike Nesmith, Don’t You Want Me and Sly Stone’s drum machine
Dec 13, 2021
Alternative Xmas songs, Zappa’s worst year, Milk Almond and the Happy Mung Beans
Dec 07, 2021
Sex In The Sixties - let Peter Doggett be your guide
Dec 04, 2021
John Illsley tells the Dire Straits story
Dec 02, 2021
Sondheim, the Band Aid recording and the first F-word on record
Nov 30, 2021
Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”
Nov 26, 2021
Elvis Costello, aka rock’s “greatest communicator”
Nov 24, 2021
Inscrutable album covers and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
Nov 18, 2021
McCartney’s lyrics & the Tom Tom Club plus Lionel Blair and other rhyming slang immortals
Nov 10, 2021
Happy 50th to the Pink Moon recording sessions!
Nov 04, 2021
Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene”.
Nov 01, 2021
Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness
Oct 24, 2021
The best five tracks of the ‘70s and massive applause for Paul Simon (80)
Oct 20, 2021
Kacey Musgraves’ naked TV appearance restaged by Alex Gold
Oct 14, 2021
Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan
Oct 11, 2021
The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers
Oct 05, 2021
"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"
Sep 30, 2021
Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”
Sep 27, 2021
A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test
Sep 21, 2021
Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”
Sep 14, 2021
"Pop music + distance = sadness"
Sep 07, 2021
For the love of Charlie Watts
Aug 31, 2021
John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s and 60s
Aug 27, 2021
From Tom T Hall to the Weeley Festival by way of Una Stubbs
Aug 24, 2021
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Danny Baker
Aug 13, 2021
The extraordinary life of Louis Armstrong plus George Harrison rebooted
Aug 09, 2021
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Mark Lewisohn
Aug 06, 2021
The mysterious connection between Zappa and Sparks
Aug 03, 2021
Amy Winehouse, XTC and the joy of "re-loved CDs"
Jul 30, 2021
Word in The Park #2: Lesley-Ann Jones remembers John Entwistle’s riotous funeral
Jul 25, 2021
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Gary Crowley
Jul 21, 2021
How do songs become terrace anthems?
Jul 13, 2021
Flat Rabbit, Mandible Rumpus ... what makes a band name work?
Jul 06, 2021
Bob Geldof: an unmissable hour of insight into rock stardom
Jul 03, 2021
Rock band gangs you want to join
Jun 29, 2021
If the England Squad were a rock band which would they be?
Jun 21, 2021
DJ Princess Diana
Jun 14, 2021
Joni Mitchell's golden month remembered
Jun 08, 2021
Favourite critics and pop star stamps
May 31, 2021
Bernie Marsden on the blues boom, "mailbox money", UFO and Whitesnake
May 26, 2021
The Bob Dylan million dollar 80th birthday bash
May 24, 2021
Richard Thompson on Fairport and Sandy Denny's "Gustav Mahler emotional see-saw"
May 19, 2021
Burglary and bluebeat in a brilliant new Madness documentary
May 18, 2021
Joel Selvin on "a sylvan moment in Hollywood history"
May 13, 2021
Bob Marley RIP (who died 40 years ago on May 11)
May 11, 2021
Rickie Lee Jones promotes "thumping good read"!
May 06, 2021
Does every act have a gimmick?
May 04, 2021
The eternal battles between Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf
Apr 27, 2021
On Jagger's ropey new single and what made the Stones a dance band
Apr 22, 2021
Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley on the folklore of the Fall
Apr 17, 2021
Original gangs that are still together
Apr 12, 2021
What pop music will still be around in 200 years' time?
Apr 06, 2021
"It ain’t 'alf been a gas this time!"
Mar 29, 2021
A 1971 Special on Nick Drake and Led Zeppelin at the Nottingham Boat Club
Mar 25, 2021
The enduring magic of the mixtape
Mar 15, 2021
The undignified history of the Ponytail In Rock
Mar 08, 2021
Happy 50th, Nick Drake and the Stones 'farewell' tour!
Mar 01, 2021
A guided tour chez Dolly Parton!
Feb 23, 2021
The Greatest Love Songs Ever Written
Feb 15, 2021
Tom Lehrer, payola and the Midnight Train to Georgia
Feb 08, 2021
The story about Phil Collins, George Harrison and the congas ...
Feb 01, 2021
Where Dolly and Phil Spector meet PG Wodehouse ...
Jan 27, 2021
It's all gone Sea Shanty!
Jan 18, 2021
Neil Young and the concert that invented 'the whoop'
Jan 11, 2021
The priceless mishaps of Fleetwood Mac
Jan 07, 2021
To the sunlit uplands of the new Let It Be movie!
Dec 28, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 365 - to the sunlit uplands of the new Let It Be movie!
Dec 27, 2020
Word Podcast 364 - in stout defence of the Bee Gees
Dec 21, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 364 - in stout defence of the Bee Gees
Dec 20, 2020
Word Podcast 363 - $300m for Dylan catalogue "a bargain"
Dec 14, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 363 - $300m for Dylan catalogue officially "a bargain"
Dec 13, 2020
Word Podcast 362 - does anyone form a band any more?
Dec 07, 2020
Word Podcast 362 (audio version) - does anyone form a band any more?
Dec 06, 2020
Word Podcast 361 - & when did YOU last listen to Apple Jam?
Nov 30, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 361 - and when did YOU last listen to 'Apple Jam'?
Nov 29, 2020
Word Podcast 360 - George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie
Nov 23, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 360 - 'George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie!'
Nov 22, 2020
Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley
Nov 17, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley
Nov 16, 2020
Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!
Nov 09, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!
Nov 08, 2020
Word Podcast 357 - Andy Neill on Ready, Steady, Go!
Nov 07, 2020
Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon
Nov 02, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon and her sister ...
Nov 01, 2020
Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today ...
Oct 27, 2020
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today...
Oct 26, 2020
Word Podcast 354 - Rob Halford
Oct 23, 2020
Word Podcast 353 - can you be too handsome for rock & roll?
Oct 19, 2020
EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 353 - can you be too good looking for rock and roll?
Oct 18, 2020
Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums
Oct 11, 2020
EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums
Oct 10, 2020
Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80
Oct 05, 2020
Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80 and the mystifying mysteries of the mysterious Marvel movies
Oct 04, 2020
Word Podcast 350 - do we still need Greatest Album lists?
Sep 29, 2020
Word Podcast 350 - do we still need these Greatest Album lists?
Sep 28, 2020
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Sep 22, 2020
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Sep 21, 2020
Word Podcast 348 - David Hepworth book launch Crowdcast
Sep 18, 2020
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns
Sep 16, 2020
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns we missed
Sep 15, 2020
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
Sep 08, 2020
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
Sep 07, 2020
Word Podcast 345 - Justin Quirk on glam metal
Sep 04, 2020
Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
Sep 01, 2020
Word Podcast 344: Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
Aug 31, 2020
Word Podcast 343 - Kenneth Womack on Lennon's last days
Aug 30, 2020
Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of Bowie's dentalwork
Aug 26, 2020
Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of David Bowie's dentalwork
Aug 25, 2020
Word Podcast 341 - Joe Banks
Aug 22, 2020
Word Podcast 340 - power shift in favour of rock audience!
Aug 19, 2020
Word Podcast 340 - the power shift in favour of the rock audience has begun!
Aug 18, 2020
Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
Aug 13, 2020
Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
Aug 12, 2020
Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
Aug 05, 2020
Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
Aug 04, 2020
Word Podcast 337 - David Mitchell
Aug 03, 2020
Word Podcast 337 - David Mitchell on why writing about the rock boom of 1967 is "an open goal"
Jul 31, 2020
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary...
Jul 27, 2020
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary: 50 and 40 years ago this week!
Jul 26, 2020
Word Podcast 335
Jul 17, 2020
Word Podcast 335 - Live Aid's "2,000 million global audience": surely some mistake?
Jul 16, 2020
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn
Jul 13, 2020
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records"
Jul 12, 2020
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
Jul 10, 2020
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
Jul 09, 2020
Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
Jul 03, 2020
Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
Jul 02, 2020
Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
Jun 27, 2020
Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
Jun 25, 2020
Word Podcast 330
Jun 20, 2020
Word Podcast 330
Jun 18, 2020
Word Podcast 329
Jun 12, 2020
Word Podcast 329
Jun 11, 2020
Word Podcast 328 - There's no fame like LP cover fame!
Jun 06, 2020
Podcast 328 - There's no fame like LP cover fame!
Jun 05, 2020
Word Podcast 327 - It's three lemons in a row...
May 29, 2020
Podcast 327: It's three lemons in a row for Richard Thompson!
May 28, 2020
Word Podcast 326 - the Sony Walkman's 40th birthday...
May 22, 2020
Word Podcast 326: the Sony Walkman's 40th birthday and how Astrid Kirchherr invented Indie
May 21, 2020
Word Podcast 325 - Fairport's momentous year...
May 15, 2020
Word Podcast 325
May 14, 2020
Word Podcast 324 - How to impersonate Roy Orbison...
May 08, 2020
EARLY ACCESS Word Podcast 324 - How to impersonate Roy Orbison and other pop parlour games
May 07, 2020
Word Podcast 323 - this week's lockdown winners are...
Apr 30, 2020
Word Podcast 322 - playing Pink Floyd Snap...
Apr 23, 2020
Word Podcast 321 - How long does lockdown have to last...
Apr 16, 2020
Word Podcast 320 - paying tribute...
Apr 08, 2020
Word Podcast 319 - another unashamedly trivial podcast...
Apr 01, 2020
Word Podcast 318 - A "for the duration" podcast
Mar 26, 2020
Word Podcast 317 - Pete Paphides
Mar 13, 2020
Word Podcast 316 - Dan Franklin
Mar 13, 2020
Word Podcast 315 - John Mitchinson and Andy Miller
Feb 24, 2020
Word Podcast 314 - Bethan Roberts
Feb 18, 2020
Word Podcast 312 - Mike Barnes
Jan 22, 2020
Word Podcast 313 - Sid Smith
Jan 22, 2020
Word Podcast 311 - Alexis Petridis
Dec 05, 2019
Word Podcast 310 - Barney Hoskyns
Dec 05, 2019
Word Podcast 309 - Andrew Collins
Oct 18, 2019
Word Podcast 308 - Graham Parker
Oct 18, 2019
Word Podcast 307 - Dylan Jones
Sep 15, 2019
Word Podcast 306 - Daniel Rachel
Sep 15, 2019
Word Podcast 305 - Dave Lewis
Aug 21, 2019
Word Podcast 304 - Ian Penman
Aug 21, 2019
Word Podcast 303 - Will Birch
Jul 24, 2019
Word Podcast 302 - Peter Doggett
Jul 24, 2019
Word Podcast 301 - The Analogues
Jul 02, 2019
Word Podcast 300 - Mick Houghton
May 15, 2019
Word Podcast 299 - Anne Dudley
May 15, 2019
Word Podcast 298 - Gary Crowley
Apr 17, 2019
Word Podcast 297 - Eamonn Forde
Apr 17, 2019
Word Podcast 296 - A Fabulous Creation
Mar 26, 2019
Word Podcast 295 - Midge Ure
Feb 16, 2019
Word Podcast 294 - David Hepworth & Friends
Nov 10, 2018
Word Podcast 293 - Mark Blake
Nov 09, 2018
Word Podcast 292 - Kenneth Womack
Oct 17, 2018
Word Podcast 291 - Billy Bragg
Oct 11, 2018
Word Podcast 215 - Chas Hodges
Sep 23, 2018
Word Podcast 290 - Mark King
Sep 20, 2018
Word Podcast 289 - Mark Kermode
Sep 18, 2018
Word Podcast 288 - Seymour Stein
Jun 28, 2018
Word Podcast 287 - Stuart Baillie
Jun 28, 2018
Word Podcast 286 - Kenney Jones
Jun 12, 2018
Word Podcast 285 - Simon Mayo
Jun 07, 2018
Word Podcast 284 - Andrew Collins
Jun 07, 2018
Word Podcast 283 - Neil Innes
May 05, 2018
Word Podcast 282 - Garth Cartwright
May 04, 2018
Word Podcast 281 - Sir Tim Rice
Apr 12, 2018
Word Podcast 280 - Richard Newman
Apr 11, 2018
Word Podcast 279 - Ian Anderson
Feb 14, 2018
Word Podcast 278 - Danny Baker
Dec 14, 2017
Word Podcast 277 - Robert Forster
Nov 23, 2017
Word Podcast 276 - Armando Iannucci
Nov 18, 2017
Word Podcast 275 - Dylan Jones
Oct 23, 2017
Word Podcast 274 - Chris Difford
Sep 17, 2017
Word podcast 273 - with Daniel Rachel
Sep 16, 2017
Word podcast 272 - Johnny Rogan and Sid Griffin
Jul 23, 2017
Word Podcast 271 - with Sarfraz Manzoor
Jul 18, 2017
Word Podcast 270 - Uncommon People
Jun 07, 2017
Word Podcast 269 - Thomas Dolby
May 25, 2017
Word Podcast 268 - John Ingham
May 21, 2017
Word Podcast 267 - Miranda Sawyer and Barry McIlheney
Apr 30, 2017
Word Podcast 266 - Tom Doyle on Elton Hercules John
Apr 30, 2017
Word Podcast 265 - David “Ram Jam” Rodigan
Apr 06, 2017
Word Podcast 264 - Tessa Niles and Gina Foster talking BVs
Mar 29, 2017
Word Podcast 263 - Jon Savage shortcast
Mar 07, 2017
Word Podcast 262 - Tony Fletcher
Feb 19, 2017
Word Podcast 261 - Barney Hoskyns
Feb 13, 2017
Word Podcast 260 - Jeff Evans
Feb 09, 2017
Word Podcast 259 - with Paul Gambaccini
Jan 29, 2017
Word Podcast 258 - Mick Houghton & Adam White
Dec 11, 2016
Word Podcast 257 - Richard Houghton
Dec 09, 2016
Word Podcast 256 - Paul Morley on David Bowie
Sep 22, 2016
Word Podcast 255 - Hunter Davies
Sep 17, 2016
Word Podcast 254 - Sylvia Patterson
Jun 26, 2016
Word Podcast 253 - Derek Ridgers
Jun 25, 2016
Word Podcast 252 - David and Caroline Stafford
May 22, 2016
Word Podcast 251 - Alan Shypton on Harry Nilsson
May 13, 2016
Word Podcast 250: 1971 - Never A Dull Moment
Apr 23, 2016
Word Podcast 249 - with Zoë Howe
Apr 17, 2016
Word Podcast 248 - with Graeme Thompson
Apr 13, 2016
Word Podcast 247 - with Jon Savage
Nov 20, 2015
Word Podcast 246 - with Howard Sounes
Nov 19, 2015
Word Podcast 245 - Elvis Costello
Oct 31, 2015
Word Podcast 244 - The Skypecast
Oct 22, 2015
Word Podcast 243 - The Peelcast
Oct 17, 2015
Word Podcast 242 - Chris Salewicz
Oct 17, 2015
Word Podcast 241 - The McCartneycast
Sep 25, 2015
Word Podcast 240 - with Patrick Woodroffe
Sep 24, 2015
Podcast 239 - with Peter Doggett
Sep 13, 2015
Word Podcast 238 - Mick Wall
Aug 30, 2015
Word Podcast 237 - Live Aid
Jul 11, 2015
Word Podcast 236 - Clare Grogan
Jul 11, 2015
Word Podcast 235 - Johnnie Walker
May 24, 2015
Podcast 234 - Johnny Rogan
May 08, 2015
Podcast 233: Mick Taylor’s got the shits…
Apr 30, 2015
Word Podcast 232 - Rick Buckler
Apr 23, 2015
Word Podcast 231 - Richard Goldstein
Apr 09, 2015
Word Podcast 230 - Norman Jopling
Apr 08, 2015
Word Podcast 229 - Fairport Convention
Mar 13, 2015
Word Podcast 228 - The Bobcast
Feb 07, 2015
Word Pod 227 - Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites
Jan 04, 2015
Richard Balls and Mark Lewisohn
Jan 04, 2015
Word Podcast 225 - Remembering Smash Hits
Dec 07, 2014
Word Podcast 223 — Danny Baker
Nov 23, 2014
Word Podcast 223
Oct 08, 2014
Word Podcast 222 — Zoe Howe
Sep 29, 2014
Word Podcast 221 — Ben Watt
Sep 24, 2014
Word Podcast 220
Aug 25, 2014
Word Podcast 219
May 05, 2014
Word Podcast 218 - Where's The Crisps?
Mar 10, 2014
Word Podcast 217 - with Bob Harris
Jun 22, 2012
Word Podcast 216
Jun 08, 2012
Word Podcast 215 - with Chas Hodges
Jun 01, 2012
Word Podcast 214 - with Graham Gouldman
May 19, 2012
Word Shortcast - The Blockheads
May 11, 2012
Word Podcast 213
May 04, 2012
Word Podcast 212
Apr 27, 2012
Word Podcast 211 - with Andrew Collins
Apr 21, 2012
Word Podcast 210
Mar 31, 2012
Word Podcast 209 - with Melvin Benn
Mar 22, 2012
Word Podcast 208
Mar 17, 2012
Word Podcast 207 - with Mark Billingham
Mar 09, 2012
Word Podcast 206 - with Scritti Politti
Mar 02, 2012
Word Podcast 205 - with Robin Hitchcock
Feb 25, 2012
Word Podcast 204
Feb 19, 2012
Word Shortcast - Eliza Carthy
Feb 15, 2012
Word Podcast 203
Feb 11, 2012
Word Podcast 202 - with Nick Coleman and Phantom Limb
Jan 29, 2012
Word Podcast 201: The Basscast
Jan 18, 2012
Word Shortcast: Neil Cowley
Jan 13, 2012
Word Podcast 200
Jan 07, 2012
Word Podcast 199
Dec 21, 2011
Word Podcast 198
Dec 15, 2011
Word Podcast 197
Dec 02, 2011
Word Podcast 196 - with Richard Strange
Nov 26, 2011
Word Podcast 195
Nov 18, 2011
Word Podcast 194 - with Nile Rodgers
Nov 12, 2011
Word Podcast 193 - the Smilecast
Oct 31, 2011
Word Podcast 192 - with Steve Lillywhite
Oct 25, 2011
Word Podcast 191
Oct 08, 2011
Word Podcast 190 - the Gastropodcast
Oct 05, 2011
Word Podcast 189 - with Jonathan Coe
Sep 27, 2011
Word Podcast 188 - the Bowiecast
Sep 22, 2011
Word Podcast 187 - The 40 Noises That Built Pop
Sep 15, 2011
Word Podcast 186 - The Queencast
Sep 10, 2011
Word Podcast 185 - with Thomas Dolby
Sep 03, 2011
Word Podcast 184 - with David Ford
Aug 17, 2011
Word Podcast 183 - Amy Winehouse, and our boat trip
Jul 26, 2011
Word Podcast 182 - The Britpopcast
Jul 19, 2011
Word Podcast 180 - Latitude Day Two, with Robin Ince & TMBG
Jul 19, 2011
Word Podcast 181 - Latitude Day Three
Jul 18, 2011
Word Podcast 179 - Latitude Day One, with Simon Armitage
Jul 16, 2011
Word Podcast 178 - with John Hiatt
Jul 13, 2011
Word Podcast 177 - The Beatlecast
Jul 05, 2011
Word Podcast 176 - with Tony Wadsworth
Jun 22, 2011
Word Podcast 175 - with Brett Anderson
Jun 18, 2011
Word Podcast 174 - with Danny Baker
Jun 15, 2011
Word Podcast 173
Jun 04, 2011
Word Podcast 172 - The Bobcast
May 24, 2011
Word Podcast 171 - with Van Dyke Parks
May 12, 2011
Word Podcast 170 - with Neil Tennant
May 05, 2011
Word Podcast 169 - with Delta Maid and Daniel Tashian
Apr 21, 2011
Word Podcast 168 - with Nick Lowe
Apr 15, 2011
Word Podcast 167: Top Of The Pops Special
Apr 08, 2011
Word Podcast 166 - with Christian Ward
Mar 25, 2011
Word Podcast 165 - with Ian McMillan
Mar 17, 2011
Word Podcast 164: Precious Memories and Inky Fingers
Mar 11, 2011
Word Podcast 163: cough buttons in Japanese toilets
Feb 25, 2011
Word Podcast 162: From the Brits to Beechams
Feb 17, 2011
Word Podcast 161: Gary Moore remembered
Feb 10, 2011
Word Podcast 160: what does a Wichita Lineman actually do?
Feb 04, 2011
Word Podcast 159: Keith Moon & good spelling
Jan 28, 2011
Word Podcast 158: Is rock dead?
Jan 14, 2011
Word Podcast 157: Elton's sunglasses & Richard Thompson's beret
Jan 07, 2011
Word Podcast 156
Dec 03, 2010
Word Podcast 155 - with Will MacDonald
Nov 16, 2010
Word Podcast 154
Nov 09, 2010
Word Podcast 153 - with Darrell Scott
Oct 29, 2010
Word Podscast 152 - with Jac Holzman
Oct 21, 2010
Word Podcast 151 - with Dougie Anderson
Oct 12, 2010
Word Podcast 150 - with Devon Sproule & Paul Curreri
Oct 05, 2010
Word Podcast 149 - with Sean Wilentz
Sep 23, 2010
Word Podcast 148 - with Dom Joly
Sep 16, 2010
Word Podcast 147 - with Phill Jupitus and Trevor Dann
Sep 09, 2010
Word Podcast 146 - a quick chat with Andrew Harrison re: iTunes
Sep 02, 2010
Word Podcast 145 - with CW Stoneking
Aug 27, 2010
Word Podcast 144 - with Wilko Johnson
Aug 11, 2010
Word Podcast 143 - with Robin Ince
Aug 04, 2010
Latitude Podcast II
Jul 18, 2010
The Latitude Podcast
Jul 17, 2010
Word Podcast 140 with Robert Forster
Jul 12, 2010
Word Podcast 139 with Jim White and Mat Priest
Jul 07, 2010
Word podcast 138 with Laura Barton
Jun 30, 2010
Word Podcast 137 with Mary Gauthier
Jun 25, 2010
Word Podcast 136
Jun 17, 2010
Podcast 135
Jun 10, 2010
Word Podcast 134
May 28, 2010
Word Podcast 133: with Neil Hannon
May 20, 2010
Word Podcast 132
May 13, 2010
Word Podcast 131
May 05, 2010
Word Podcast 130 - with Eamonn Forde
Apr 09, 2010
Word Podcast 129 - with Andrew Collins
Mar 30, 2010
Word Podcast 128 - with Jude Rogers
Mar 24, 2010
Word Podcast 126 with Philip Ball
Mar 17, 2010
Word Podcast 127
Mar 05, 2010
Word Podcast 125
Feb 24, 2010
Word Podcast 124
Feb 12, 2010
Word Podcast 123
Feb 05, 2010
Word Podcast 122 - with Idris Elba
Jan 25, 2010
Word Podcast 121 - Phil Smee, reissue man
Jan 22, 2010
Word Podcast 120 with Steve Lamacq
Jan 12, 2010
Word Podcast 119 - The Christmas Special
Dec 18, 2009
Word Podcast 118 - All about swearing
Dec 03, 2009
Word Podcast 117 with Mark Hagen
Nov 24, 2009
Word Podcast 116
Nov 12, 2009
Word Podcast 115 with Danny Baker
Oct 20, 2009
Word Podcast 114
Oct 14, 2009
Word Podcast 113
Oct 07, 2009
Word Podcast 112 - the smell of record shops
Sep 17, 2009
Word podcast 111 (The Nelson)
Sep 01, 2009
The Word Podcast is back from its holidays
Aug 20, 2009
Word Podcast 109
Jul 30, 2009
Word Podcast 108
Jul 23, 2009
Podcast 107: College Ents Special
Jul 15, 2009
Podcast 106: At war with the iPod generation
Jul 13, 2009
Word Podcast 105
Jul 09, 2009
Podcast 103: Paul Du Noyer on London's music
Jul 01, 2009
The Word's Legendary Glastonburycast
Jun 27, 2009
Word Podcast 102
Jun 16, 2009
Word Podcast 101
Jun 12, 2009
Word Podcast 100
Jun 03, 2009
Word Podcast 99: it's question time
May 28, 2009
Word Podcast 98: talking Monkey Tennis
May 20, 2009
Word Podcast 97
May 12, 2009
Word Podcast 96
May 05, 2009
Word Podcast 95
Apr 28, 2009
Word Podcast 94
Apr 21, 2009
Word Podcast 93
Apr 08, 2009
Word Podcast 92: happy birthday, 45
Apr 02, 2009
Word Podcast 91
Mar 27, 2009
Word Podcast 90 - St Patrick's Day Special
Mar 17, 2009
Word Podcast 89
Mar 09, 2009
Word Podcast 88
Mar 03, 2009
Word Podcast 87
Feb 24, 2009
Word Podcast 86
Feb 17, 2009
Word Podcast 85
Feb 10, 2009
Word Magazine Podcast 84
Feb 03, 2009
Word Podcast 83 - remember Diamond White?
Jan 23, 2009
Word Podcast 82 - Amy loses a contact lens
Jan 16, 2009
Word Podcast 81
Jan 07, 2009
The Word's Hidden Track
Dec 30, 2008
The Word Christmas Podcast 2008
Dec 23, 2008
The 80th Birthday of the Word Podcast
Dec 17, 2008
Word Podcast 78
Dec 11, 2008
Word Podcast 78
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Word Podcast 77
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Nov 06, 2008
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Oct 16, 2008
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Oct 09, 2008
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Oct 02, 2008
Word Podcast 68
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Word Podcast 67
Sep 09, 2008
Word Podcast 66
Sep 02, 2008
Word podcast 65
Aug 01, 2008
Word Podcast 64
Jul 23, 2008
Word Podcast 63 - Two Drummers Chatting
Jul 15, 2008
Word Podcast 62
Jul 09, 2008
Glastonbury Podcast! with extra crackle!
Jun 28, 2008
Word Podcast 60
Jun 25, 2008
Word Podcast 59
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May 14, 2008
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Apr 29, 2008
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Mar 25, 2008
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Mar 03, 2008
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Feb 26, 2008
Word Podcast 42 (the Brits)
Feb 21, 2008
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Feb 07, 2008
Word Podcast 39
Jan 31, 2008
Word Podcast 38
Jan 24, 2008
The Word Weekly Podcast 37
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Jan 09, 2008
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