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Word Podcast 267 - Miranda Sawyer and Barry McIlheney
David Hepworth started at Smash Hits in the late 70s, Mark Ellen joined in the early 80s, Barry McIlheney arrived in the middle of the decade and Mir…
8 years, 11 months ago
Word Podcast 266 - Tom Doyle on Elton Hercules John
“Captain Fantastic” is Tom Doyle’s account of Elton’s most tumultuous decade, the 70s, during which time he assumed every role from bedsitter poet to…
8 years, 11 months ago
Word Podcast 265 - David “Ram Jam” Rodigan
There’s a rich British tradition of well brought up young men from the leafier suburbs developing a fixation on music from a very different culture a…
9 years ago
Word Podcast 264 - Tessa Niles and Gina Foster talking BVs
We were delighted to be joined by two of the UK’s most respected providers of backing vocals and harmonies, who between them have sung with everybody…
9 years ago
Word Podcast 263 - Jon Savage shortcast
In this shortcast Jon Savage talks to David Hepworth about his new compilation album, “1967 - The Year Pop Divided”. Forty-eight tracks of psych-flav…
9 years, 1 month ago
Word Podcast 262 - Tony Fletcher
In Which Tony Fletcher tells us about Wilson Pickett, who was impossible as a child, inimitable as a singer and incorrigible as a success, and how he…
9 years, 2 months ago
Word Podcast 261 - Barney Hoskyns
In which Barney Hoskyns talks to us about Woodstock and the part it played in the lives of Dylan, the Band, Albert Grossman and Van Morrison, as rela…
9 years, 2 months ago
Word Podcast 260 - Jeff Evans
In which Jeff Evans returns from researching the full history of "Rock and Pop On TV" for his new book and talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth abo…
9 years, 2 months ago
Word Podcast 259 - with Paul Gambaccini
In which Paul Gambaccini, that son of New York who became an institution of British broadcasting, talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about how th…
9 years, 2 months ago
Word Podcast 258 - Mick Houghton & Adam White
In which Mick Houghton, the author of a book about the legendary folk-rock label Elektra, and Adam White, the man behind a huge tome about the histor…
9 years, 4 months ago