Word In Your Ear
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The Wedding Present turns 40, memories of John Peel & ‘the only time I ever pogo-ed’
33 mins; August 03, 2025
Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, Hollywood and writing songs for frogs and unicorns
47 mins; July 29, 2025
Del Amitri’s Justin Currie has faced every tough crowd imaginable. Lessons were learn
45 mins; July 29, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws, the lost world of mix tapes & the movies’ most chilling moment
57 mins; July 27, 2025
The late Nick Drake’s manager on the nine-year project “The Making Of Five Leaves Left”
30 mins; July 26, 2025
Suzi Quatro - how Dad, Elvis and Mickie Most transformed my life
23 mins; July 21, 2025
New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
61 hours 12 mins; July 20, 2025
The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album ever made”.
27 mins; July 17, 2025
Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good story?
46 mins; July 14, 2025
John Otway – Micro-stardom, 5,000 gigs and how to capture a crowd in 20 seconds
34 mins; July 10, 2025
Peter Hook looks back at Joy Division, New Order and how not to be a DJ
31 mins; July 07, 2025
Live Aid remembered – from inside and out – on its 40th birthday
54 mins; July 05, 2025
Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull and 58 years of one-legged live performance
26 mins; June 30, 2025
Album sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening lines
54 mins; June 29, 2025
Bobby Bluebell’s thriving third act, ‘80s Glasgow and the gift that keeps on giving
23 mins; June 27, 2025
Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records
24 mins; June 26, 2025
Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape onstage”
32 mins; June 25, 2025
10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye
54 mins; June 23, 2025
When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre
40 mins; June 19, 2025
Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour
35 mins; June 16, 2025
The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations
35 mins; June 15, 2025
Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth
41 mins; June 12, 2025
Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years 

25 mins; June 10, 2025
Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé in a Stetson
45 mins; June 08, 2025
Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own
46 mins; June 06, 2025
Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger
46 mins; June 02, 2025
Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury still makes headlines
48 mins; June 01, 2025
Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of eight
24 mins; May 30, 2025
Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13
41 mins; May 29, 2025
Books rock stars want you to read, sacked drummers and how Dylan spent his birthday
38 mins; May 26, 2025
Dylan Jones bangs the drum for 1975, an explosion of talent and creativity
32 mins; May 25, 2025
The great lost Beach Boys SMiLE album – David Leaf unravels rock’s Holy Grail
51 mins; May 19, 2025
The best songs written in seconds, Lennon’s legs and Springsteen’s chimes of freedom.
36 mins; May 17, 2025
Dennis Greaves, Nine Below Zero – old-school R&B, police and thieves and the agony of white clogs
41 mins; May 14, 2025
Peter Capaldi’s life in a teenage Glasgow punk band and a public apology to the Cocteau Twins
49 mins; May 13, 2025
Alan Parsons – from the rooftop of Savile Row to Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and some singing pigs
34 mins; May 12, 2025
Mom Rock v Dad Rock, the Oasis rumour mill and Kanye West’s devious dentist.
40 mins; May 11, 2025
Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California
39 mins; May 08, 2025
The greatest duet, rock cameos in Miami Vice and the rebirth of Mississippi John Hurt
49 mins; May 05, 2025
Al Murray and James Holland talk the ending of the war in 1945 and the afterlife of The Beatles
42 mins; May 02, 2025
Derek Shulman – when Simon Dupree and Gentle Giant were “the darlings of the English Mafia”
42 mins; April 30, 2025
The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!
36 mins; April 29, 2025
Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents
49 mins; April 23, 2025
Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan
29 mins; April 21, 2025
Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache
52 mins; April 20, 2025
Dave Pegg, Fairport’s “longest-serving member” (fnarr!) looks back at hippie chaos and old heroes
42 mins; April 17, 2025
Withering reviews of famous albums, Jaws versus Jeeves and the genius of Blondie’s Clem Burke
52 mins; April 15, 2025
Why Sparks’ Russell Mael preferred British acts to the ‘faux honesty’ of Laurel Canyon
24 mins; April 08, 2025
Seven ‘lost’ Springsteen albums, romance in sitcoms and the age of spectacle
38 mins; April 08, 2025
Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’.
39 mins; April 02, 2025
AI’s Word In Your Ear theme tune (!!), the four stages of showbiz & taking kids to concerts
39 mins; March 30, 2025
Hearing 45 year-old records you’d never played & the least likely-looking person to become a rock star
42 mins; March 25, 2025
What Kate Mossman discovered about rock’s elder statesmen
42 mins; March 21, 2025
How John Harris and his son found a life-changing connection through music
51 mins; March 20, 2025
Mike Rutherford looks back at 60 years onstage and the art of cheap rock theatre
26 mins; March 18, 2025
Mike Scott of the Waterboys remembers the shows that inspired him
16 mins; March 17, 2025
The lost world of teenage love songs – and the best pop song ever written!
47 mins; March 16, 2025
Nik Kershaw remembers Live Aid, snoods, fingerless gloves & a sudden male-female audience shift
27 mins; March 15, 2025
Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage
52 mins; March 13, 2025
Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how to make a speech
55 mins; March 10, 2025
Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immediate Family”
24 mins; March 06, 2025
Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie
44 mins; March 05, 2025
The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St
54 mins; March 02, 2025
Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John
26 mins; February 28, 2025
Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler
57 mins; February 23, 2025
Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues
28 mins; February 20, 2025
Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations
55 mins; February 18, 2025
Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”
40 mins; February 17, 2025
Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard
46 mins; February 16, 2025
Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark
45 mins; February 10, 2025
The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey
36 mins; February 06, 2025
So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave
53 mins; February 04, 2025
Did Britain invent the rock band? - plus our new laws about music & Garth Hudson RIP
37 mins; January 30, 2025
Howard Jones has ‘the best job in the world’
20 mins; January 28, 2025
Andy Fairweather Low’s teenage psychedelic stardom
28 mins; January 23, 2025
A 3-part rant about LPs sold as ‘antiques’, TikTok & the shameful AI Michael Parkinson
50 mins; January 20, 2025
The unstoppable Francis Rossi – open the fridge door and he’ll do 30 minutes
33 mins; January 18, 2025
Graham Nash beat the Beatles in a talent contest
13 mins; January 14, 2025
The Dylan biopic, Sam & Dave and why 2025 is the most important year in our lives.
45 mins; January 13, 2025
Johnnie Walker, pop’s golden year and what’s wrecking rock documentaries.
36 mins; January 05, 2025
How Dylan and Leonard Cohen punctured the Summer Of Love plus the birth of blockbuster album
44 mins; December 31, 2024
Why we have enough Christmas hits plus the greatest songs about money
40 mins; December 23, 2024
Bill Bailey celebrates “the things that make us human”.
30 mins; December 21, 2024
How Al Stewart struck gold, the folk boom and a flat-share with Paul Simon
40 mins; December 19, 2024
‘Mystique is dead’: what Gary Kemp learnt in 40 years of making and selling records
49 mins; December 18, 2024
The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles
51 mins; December 17, 2024
The greatest sax solo, YMCA, musical one-night stands and Tom Hanks’ wise advice
41 mins; December 09, 2024
How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits
45 mins; December 08, 2024
The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets & Trump’s guitars
49 mins; December 02, 2024
How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them
36 mins; December 01, 2024
Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual delight
33 mins; November 29, 2024
Danny Baker - the panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote with a taste of his upcoming tour
50 mins; November 27, 2024
The Band Aid recording, the birth of the tape loop and the power of the movie theme tune
57 mins; November 25, 2024
How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong
24 mins; November 23, 2024
John Lydon on the genius of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and the fine art of Spoken Word
37 mins; November 20, 2024
The poshest pop star ever, music in Xmas ads and song lyrics we can still recite
42 mins; November 18, 2024
Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman
30 mins; November 13, 2024
Peter Perrett of the Only Ones – teenage life, a wondrous return and a 35-year lost weekend.
29 mins; November 12, 2024
Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blockbuster
50 mins; November 11, 2024
The genius of George Harrison and why he’s still underrated
39 mins; November 09, 2024