Word In Your Ear
The UK's original music chat podcast, est. 2007 and presented by David Hepworth and Mark Ellen.
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold · Word In Your Ear
Show overview
Word In Your Ear has been publishing since 2007, and across the 19 years since has built a catalogue of 1,016 episodes. That works out to roughly 710 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 36 min and 51 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Music show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 116 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 142 episodes published.
From the publisher
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.