Word In Your Ear
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Tony King – friend, adviser and confidante: you can see why the Beatles, Stones and Elton thought he was the best company imaginable
31 mins; January 17, 2023
The greatest singer of all time? (we know the answer)
40 mins; January 09, 2023
The transformational role of the bus in ‘60s pop: discuss!
62 hours 5 mins; January 01, 2023
The deliciously eccentric life and art of Ivor Cutler by his biographer Bruce Lindsay
30 mins; December 28, 2022
The things rock made us wear
62 hours 38 mins; December 21, 2022
Strokes producer Gordon Raphael on the serendipitous creation of 'Is This It'
37 mins; December 20, 2022
Jet Black, exotic Americans and Oscar Hammerstein’s joke
43 mins; December 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
28 mins; December 11, 2022
Stories Christine McVie told us - including “Freddie King fixed my puncture”
34 mins; December 05, 2022
Phil Jump tells the story of the legendary Badlands - and the day he took Steve Van Zandt to Brian Jones’s grave
46 mins; December 03, 2022
A farewell to Wilko – “Dr Feelgood didn’t play the music, the music played them.”
53 mins; November 28, 2022
Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass”
39 mins; November 27, 2022
If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
57 mins; November 23, 2022
Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
60 hours 45 mins; November 17, 2022
Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import
36 mins; November 09, 2022
Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stewart
33 mins; November 04, 2022
Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever made?
50 mins; November 01, 2022
Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
29 mins; October 28, 2022
What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
33 mins; October 27, 2022
Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
28 mins; October 26, 2022
Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
25 mins; October 24, 2022
All of your rock heroes have had work done
40 mins; October 19, 2022
King Crimson, Dave Vanian’s shoe and seeing one of the world’s most famous women on a train
46 mins; October 12, 2022
50 years of Nuggets, Ian Brown’s karaoke and is there a band name worse than Jealous Nostril?
44 mins; October 04, 2022
Hilary Mantel, Zappa track or ad slogan and the day Beefheart sold Aldous Huxley a vacuum-cleaner
63 hours 8 mins; September 27, 2022
Our farewell to the most famous person in the world (and the story of a brief encounter)
27 mins; September 09, 2022
You’re not going to Duran Duran’s Halloween party dressed like that!
55 mins; September 05, 2022
Celebrity mash-ups! An afternoon with Billy Joel, Ivanka Trump, Bono, Geldof and Rupert Murdoch
48 mins; August 30, 2022
The horror, the horror! Why you MUST see the new Woodstock ’99 documentary
52 mins; August 09, 2022
In praise of Bernard Cribbins, Clive James and the noble art of guitar-smashing
42 mins; August 02, 2022
Why half the people at a gig don't really want to be there
36 mins; July 24, 2022
Dave Grohl reaches ‘Meldrew age’, Be Here Now’s 25th birthday and the sex life of Dave Davies
50 mins; July 21, 2022
How much of ‘Indie’ is just shoes and hair?
58 mins; July 11, 2022
Chris Blackwell remembers the “underdogs, rejects and misfits” he signed to Island Records
38 mins; July 08, 2022
Danny Baker and Graham Gouldman at our live McCartney 80th birthday special!
48 mins; July 04, 2022
Paul McCartney in the Park: our 80th birthday special (Part One!)
55 mins; July 02, 2022
What links The Day Of The Jackal, Supertramp, the Sun and James Callaghan?
34 mins; June 28, 2022
The new Elvis movie and why we loved it
43 mins; June 20, 2022
Why music is largely about everything but music
20 mins; June 14, 2022
Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and how to ‘rockwash’ your tarnished reputation
42 mins; June 07, 2022
Has any actor played a rock star convincingly?
61 hours 46 mins; May 31, 2022
You spent HOW MUCH on speakers?
41 mins; May 23, 2022
Can bands still “sell out”? - plus 50 years of Exile On Main Street and RIP the iPod
39 mins; May 17, 2022
The world’s rarest records and the sartorial splendour of the satin tour jacket
38 mins; May 12, 2022
Kate Rusby (12) bought Bon Jovi tapes on hire purchase from Casa Disco in Barnsley
36 mins; May 11, 2022
It’s our fantasy seven-decade Queen’s Jubilee line -up!
40 mins; May 02, 2022
You’re either a t-shirt act or a non t-shirt act: discuss
51 mins; April 26, 2022
Which band played the Old Grey Whistle Test and was then completely forgotten?
35 mins; April 22, 2022
‘Streaming Killed the Skit Track’ plus Toastface Grillah and the Sgt Peppermill
45 mins; April 13, 2022
We spot Will “Slapper” Smith’s biggest mistake at the Oscars and salute Ben Sidran’s foot
31 mins; April 04, 2022
No Top Of The Pops. No NME or Smash Hits covers. What do bands dream of now?
29 mins; March 28, 2022
How did ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ get released without a parental advisory sticker?
41 mins; March 24, 2022
There’s only been one truly original group and we know who they are
49 mins; March 14, 2022
There’s only been one truly original group and we know who they are
49 mins; March 14, 2022
Which bands were ALL good–looking? 15 contenders considered...
39 mins; March 07, 2022
Why $15m for Britney Spears’ memoir is “a bargain” and the curious tale of A Whiter Shade Of Pale
44 mins; February 28, 2022
Why do all bands seem ludicrous apart from the ones you personally like?
53 mins; February 21, 2022
Does anyone capture the spirit of a place better than Van Morrison’s Belfast? – plus some underrated ‘70s tracks
55 mins; February 14, 2022
The story of Don Henley’s the Boys of Summer, £10k headphones and ‘I’m Getting Buried In The Morning’ …
41 mins; February 08, 2022
Morrissey v Marr, Neil Young v Spotify, Albarn v Swift – it’s a Pop Tiffs special!
58 mins; January 31, 2022
The pleasing eccentricities of Jonathan Richman plus Natalie Umbrella-Stand, Christina Aqualibra and “Neil Aspinall: The Movie”
49 mins; January 24, 2022
Ronnie Spector, the Day Of The Jackal and why no-one screams at musicians with beards
46 mins; January 17, 2022
The inventor of the rock logo and why Rick Wakeman’s owed a fortune
36 mins; January 10, 2022
The Summer Of Soul movie, Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense and listening to 1,000 albums a year
42 mins; January 03, 2022
Rock memoirs that need to be written, the Porridge Christmas Special and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
28 mins; December 19, 2021
Mike Nesmith, Don’t You Want Me and Sly Stone’s drum machine
36 mins; December 13, 2021
Alternative Xmas songs, Zappa’s worst year, Milk Almond and the Happy Mung Beans
44 mins; December 07, 2021
Sex In The Sixties - let Peter Doggett be your guide
39 mins; December 04, 2021
John Illsley tells the Dire Straits story
45 mins; December 02, 2021
Sondheim, the Band Aid recording and the first F-word on record
36 mins; November 30, 2021
Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”
36 mins; November 26, 2021
Elvis Costello, aka rock’s “greatest communicator”
41 mins; November 24, 2021
Inscrutable album covers and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
37 mins; November 18, 2021
McCartney’s lyrics & the Tom Tom Club plus Lionel Blair and other rhyming slang immortals
46 mins; November 10, 2021
Happy 50th to the Pink Moon recording sessions!
38 mins; November 04, 2021
Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene”.
49 mins; November 01, 2021
Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness
28 mins; October 24, 2021
The best five tracks of the ‘70s and massive applause for Paul Simon (80)
46 mins; October 20, 2021
Kacey Musgraves’ naked TV appearance restaged by Alex Gold
45 mins; October 14, 2021
Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan
46 mins; October 11, 2021
The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers
46 mins; October 05, 2021
"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"
46 mins; September 30, 2021
Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”
39 mins; September 27, 2021
A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test
45 mins; September 21, 2021
Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”
42 mins; September 14, 2021
"Pop music + distance = sadness"
40 mins; September 07, 2021
For the love of Charlie Watts
56 mins; August 31, 2021
John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s and 60s
39 mins; August 27, 2021
From Tom T Hall to the Weeley Festival by way of Una Stubbs
58 mins; August 24, 2021
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Danny Baker
33 mins; August 13, 2021
The extraordinary life of Louis Armstrong plus George Harrison rebooted
43 mins; August 09, 2021
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Mark Lewisohn
23 mins; August 06, 2021
The mysterious connection between Zappa and Sparks
45 mins; August 03, 2021
Amy Winehouse, XTC and the joy of "re-loved CDs"
40 mins; July 30, 2021
Word in The Park #2: Lesley-Ann Jones remembers John Entwistle’s riotous funeral
22 mins; July 25, 2021
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Gary Crowley
23 mins; July 21, 2021
How do songs become terrace anthems?
48 mins; July 13, 2021
Flat Rabbit, Mandible Rumpus ... what makes a band name work?
37 mins; July 06, 2021
Bob Geldof: an unmissable hour of insight into rock stardom
77 hours 15 mins; July 03, 2021
Rock band gangs you want to join
47 mins; June 29, 2021