Word In Your Ear Podcast Transcripts
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold · 1,011 episodes with transcripts
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.
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Latest Word In Your Ear transcripts
Roxy, Traffic, Nick Drake, Mott the Hoople & the magic of Island Records
October 8, 2026
Mark Ellen (0:03)
You're watching or listening to Word In Your Ear. Of course you are, as you're never alone with a show that alights upon everything ever invented in the art of conversation. Whether that's regrettable rock and roll footwear, daft things audiences do, epic stage names, tracks to play at wedding parties or the outer…
Neil Storey (0:45)
You're listening to a podcast from The Word.
David Hepworth (0:47)
I don't even remember when you were about nine or 10 years old. There was no greater pleasure than if you were lucky enough to receive an annual, you know, possibly from the Beano or from the Eagle, where you just got, you could gorge yourself on kind of all manner of self-intelligent and trivia in your favorite…
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