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Word Podcast 256 - Paul Morley on David Bowie
In which David Hepworth talks to legendary journalist and author Paul Morley about how David Bowie inflamed his young imagination and his new book Th…
9 years, 4 months ago
Word Podcast 255 - Hunter Davies
In which David Hepworth talks to legendary journalist and author Hunter Davies about his time as a fly on the wall with the Beatles in the middle six…
9 years, 4 months ago
Word Podcast 254 - Sylvia Patterson
In which we talk to the irrepressible Sylvia Patterson on how music provided some much needed structure in her chaotic teenage life and her career as…
9 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 253 - Derek Ridgers
In which we talk to Derek Ridgers, who began taking pictures at Eric Clapton’s Rainbow concert and was there to document the brief moment when punk w…
9 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 252 - David and Caroline Stafford
In which we talked to the husband and wife team behind Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong: The Life And Times Of Randy Newman about this uniquely fascinating a…
9 years, 8 months ago
Word Podcast 251 - Alan Shypton on Harry Nilsson
In which Harry Nilsson biographer Alan Shypton reflects on the man with the voice of an angel and the thirst of a medium-sized nation. We're a bit la…
9 years, 8 months ago
Word Podcast 250: 1971 - Never A Dull Moment
In which David Hepworth instructs Mark Ellen in the theory behind his best-selling book about the the annus mirabilis of the rock album, “1971: Neve…
9 years, 8 months ago
Word Podcast 249 - with Zoë Howe
In which friend of Word In Your Ear and Essex correspondent Zoë Howe talks about the Doctor Feelgood frontman, subject of her new book Lee Brilleaux:…
9 years, 9 months ago
Word Podcast 248 - with Graeme Thompson
In which Word contributor and biographer of George Harrison Graeme Thomson talks about the short but action-packed passage of the “literally clubbabl…
9 years, 9 months ago
Word Podcast 247 - with Jon Savage
Jon Savage has written celebrated histories of Punk Rock and the Teenager. Now he turns his attention to 1966, the year when pop went fuzzy at the ed…
10 years, 2 months ago