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Word In Your Ear — 996 episodes
Stiff Records’ 50th birthday! – the farcical magnificent record label and why we adored it
Elliott Smith, his life, his afterlife and the friends who believed in him
How Kylie became the whole world’s sweetheart
Sandy Denny’s life and luminous talent celebrated by Linda Thompson
The Abbey Road photo miracle, Glen Hansard and TV we’d pay to watch
Bowie, the Cure, Neil Young and the golden age of the video shoot
Pauline Black of the Selecter, the girl who invented the Rude Girl
Tony Fletcher - teenage label boss! – remembers the Jam, the Tube and the ‘80s pop explosion
Is AI wrecking rock history? – plus festivals in heatwaves and Kate Bush dancing
Jonathan Richman, on-the-road songs and the best-known solo ever recorded
Georgie Fame, Ben Sidran and the golden age of ‘60s Soho
Steve Hackett remembers batwings, blues clubs and Genesis on £15 a week
Mari Wilson, our favourite girl about town, takes Neasden to Chelsea
All music is dance music! – and the best stage name ever
Adam & the Ants, pop stardom and Marco Pirroni’s brief spell in the spotlight
The Specials are no more! Horace Panter remembers days when it was ‘like walking on air’
Is Indie the new Good Old Days? And why are there no British country stars?
Kevin Rowland, the new Dexys and what he's learnt from life
Great rock feuds of Manchester, TV comedy & the man who invented the pop song
Joan Armatrading, Tom Robinson and the great music meltdown of Summer ‘76
Prefab Sprout - a tale of mystery, eccentricity and pop’s most famous motorbike
Madonna smoking, the first indie PM and have we just witnessed the nadir of pop?!
Gary Numan’s reality check – ‘I’m essentially a guy who wears make-up for a living’
David Gray’s priceless memories of lessons learned the hard way
Why George Michael’s life is a movie plus Syd, Kirsty, Gorillaz & the worst album title ever
Peter Frampton – ‘the Face of 1968’ looks back!
Paul Simon’s Graceland and how the masterpiece was made
Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime
Pop stars’ weddings and why Noel Gallagher’s right about World Cup music
Dave Balfe remembers the Teardrops, Blur and a very big house in the country
Star Ratings - do we love/hate/need them? Five-star debate here! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brian Epstein & the Beatles - what he did and what he hid
Are we nearing Beatles Overload? plus the rock star with the most children (41!)
The glorious story of Funk from James Brown to Off The Wall
Leo Sayer has met everyone – rock legends, sport superstars, future presidents …
Songs about sweltering heat, Willie Nelson’s braids and is vinyl now ‘luxury goods’?
How Daniel Lanois made those adventurous records with Dylan, U2 and Willie Nelson
Siouxsie, Nico, Cocteaus, Shangri-Las, Bobbie Gentry … a celebration of the sound of Goth!
Blondie and Clem Burke remembered by devoted pal Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s
Nick Lowe’s miracle payday, Rock feuds and a giant inflatable Jarvis
The Damned at 50 and the memories (and regrets) of Rat Scabies
Shoegaze, slackers, ‘noise chasms’ and the 10-year reinvention of rock
Famous rock locations, His & Hers records and weird things thrown onstage
Brian Eno’s restless creative adventures with Roxy, Bowie, U2 and Talking Heads
The Who, Floyd, Led Zep and the great college circuit that launched 1,000 bands
Paul Simon, Bad Bunny, how songwriting changed & the scourge of Blue Dot Fever!
Pleasure Gardens, cabaret, nightclubs, rave & 350 years of the Big Night Out
Andy Earl’s memories of photographing Prince, Madonna and Johnny Cash
Talk Talk, a deep-dive tale of mystery and imagination
The Clash, the Cramps and Penny Kiley’s teenage punk diaries
Van Morrison’s agent writes crime fiction as the music business sleeps
Can the Michael movie reboot Jacko? & how social media changed festivals
Andy Kershaw & Dylan’s jar of jam plus the things people do to get gigs
The story of Wild Thing and whatever happened to World Cup songs?
No Sex Pistols in Manchester? ‘No Smiths, Nirvana, indie rock.’ Discuss!
The Keith Moon story is a movie in waiting, both a comedy and a tragedy
The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’
Who hasn’t had ‘work done’, how to spot AI and the stupidest thing we ever did
How Tony Visconti keeps the Bowie flag flying
Matt Johnson & the unique story of The The plus George Michael and the sunbed
At home with Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & John Martyn in the golden year of 1970
The Jarrett movie, Macca’s secret & when did standing at gigs start?
The Clash story mapped by the places they lived, played, evolved … and shot pigeons
Mustn’t grumble! Songs with the essence of Englishness
Neil Tennant revisits songs he’s written since the age of nine
Steve Nieve looks back at Costello, Stiff tours and the magical sound of pianos
Scores McCartney still wants to settle, Country Joe and the rise of ‘destination gigs’
Shaun & Bez and other Odd Couples we love
The Kinks’ chaotic ascent mapped out day-by-day is ‘a nirvana for any fan’
How A Hard Day’s Night ripped up the pop movie rulebook
Bob Dylan and the Beatles, a tale of envy, affection and intense rivalry
Mark Lewisohn and why writing the real Beatles story just got harder
Albums we bought because we liked the title
How Glenn Tilbrook transformed the life of Squeeze
The Skids, Big Country and the unsettling story of Stuart Adamson
There are only three Rock National Treasures – and we name them!
Keith & Chuck, Bowie & Tina, Frank & Elvis and what we learnt from rock’s joint ventures
Boston, Def Leppard, bad hair & the golden age of rock radio
Was Bad Bunny at the Superbowl the greatest show ever staged?
Andy Bown remembers the Herd, Judas Jump and 47 years in Status Quo
How the album survived and why it satisfies the soul!
Racy pulp paperbacks, teenage Joni and the BRIT School versus the age of the amateurs
David Bowie and the triumph, mystery and struggle of his third act
Days with Bowie, Prince, the Stones, Hendrix & the Clash by David Sinclair
The genius of Sly Dunbar & Catherine O’Hara plus Springsteen’s anthem and old New York
Adele Bertei, New York’s art-rock explosion and Eno’s shopping list
Steve Lillywhite produced the Stones, U2, Siouxsie, XTC - ‘the last leg of the relay’
Who’d be a nepo baby? plus the mystery album that outsold the Beatles
Simon Nicol of Fairport Convention, back in the van with a bag of toffees
Miles Hunt of the Wonder Stuff - ‘I’d rather make people laugh than applaud’
Kenney Jones remembers the Small Faces’ masterpiece
The fabulous Bob Weir and how the Grateful Dead invented the internet
Steve Cradock on Ocean Colour Scene, Mod hair & the ghost of Ronnie Lane
Mary Coughlan, onstage from the age of five - ‘Applause and lemonade!’
Pet Shop Boys at 40, missing folk star found! & rock stars’ childhood bedrooms
From Dylan to Chappell Roan, pop’s 60-year obsession with Brigitte Bardot
Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator and what makes them unique
Do all panned albums end up loved? And what’s the most significant record sleeve?
Paul Kelly – ‘national treasure!’ - and the song that took 30 years
Lucinda Williams is fighting on every front
Beastie Boys, Frankie, teds, punks, raves - ‘moral panics’ remembered!
Punk Rock recalled by Chris Sullivan - can music STILL be outrageous?
UK Subs’ Charlie Harper (81) has served 50 years in the punk wars. Give this man a medal!
Fairytale of New York's full story & the imperishable genius of Steve Cropper
The Beatles versus Capitol Records and ‘the greatest marketing hype in history’
The Undertones are 50! And no-one’s more amazed than Damian O’Neill
Jimmy Cliff, unseen Beatles and the greatest bassline on record!
Boo Hewerdine’s funny and alarming account of real life on the road
Legendary duos who met by chance, RIP Mani & ironing to gangsta rap
Kula Shaker’s Crispian Mills had a colourful childhood
The Beach Boys’ story gets more tangled by the minute
What makes a rock star a ‘ledge’ & the daft rituals of the ‘70s disco
Rock’s fascination with the Third Reich exposed by Daniel Rachel
Paul Weller – ‘gloriously chippy’ – as seen by friends, family, fans and collaborators
Did rave kill dancing in couples? Stars seen in strange places?
David Bowie and why we need him more than ever. Paul Morley looks back in wonder
‘Bob Dylan is my father’ - and why Sam Sussman is convinced it’s true.
Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey had a ‘manifesto for success’. Here’s how it worked
Cowbells, maracas, gongs, castanets – classic percussion parts demonstrated!
The Smiths’ Mike Joyce on triumph, gladioli & Morrissey when he was still ‘Steve’
Records that sound unique and why all bands need a backlash
Paul Young – “Big in the ‘80s! What lucky bastards we were!’
Billy Bragg – 40 years, 2,700 gigs and what he learnt from Taylor Swift
Mark Kermode tells us stories about music in movies
How many bands can you name every member of?
The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21
Led Zeppelin’s fight for attention and how they fudged their backstory
Stones, Blondie, Iggy and songs that make a movie & why we loved Diane Keaton
Ringo and why the Beatles wouldn’t have worked without him
Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with poshness
Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie
The three London kids who invented rock style
Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.
Thea Gilmore on Joan Baez, Jake Thackray and Dave Pegg’s dog starting her career
How pioneer tape-rat Roger Armstrong found vintage America a whole new audience
Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-looking rock stars
John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire
Alex's star-studded week in Hollywood
Peter Hammill on Bowie, other superfans & 47 albums of ‘self-sabotage and chaos’.
Talking Heads, where they came from and where they went - with Jonathan Gould
Freddie Mercury has a daughter’ – and Lesley-Ann Jones can prove it
Oasis in 2026, the Troggs and what Morrissey’s only gone and done now!
‘Hey Joe’, its miracle birth & why violent songs are like True Crime - by Jason Schneider
Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span drove Rev Gary Davis round Britain in a Triumph Herald
Why reviews lost their sting - and what matters more, the song or the record?
Debsey Wykes of Dolly Mixture wants you to read her teenage diary
Singers’ vast egos explained and what’s the real definition of ‘a fan’?
Neil Hannon - the Divine Comedy, the Father Ted saga & nights at the Indie Disco
Tanita Tikaram - from ‘girl with guitar in bedroom’ to Hammersmith Odeon in six months
Bob Mould remembers Hüsker Dü, Sugar & that guy with the hipster moustache
Comedy records, TV gold & have Oasis and Coldplay hoovered up all the cash?
Brian Protheroe on the eternal life of his 1974 hit “Pinball”
Terry Reid, the man who really invented Led Zeppelin, & guitar fetishism
Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen
Jah Wobble - 40 hilarious unedited minutes interrupted by a pest control officer
Elvis, the Colonel & how unseen letters changed Peter Guralnick’s view of their partnership
Are the Nineties the new Classic Rock? And whatever happened to comedy records?
The Wedding Present turns 40, memories of John Peel & ‘the only time I ever pogo-ed’
Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, Hollywood and writing songs for frogs and unicorns
Del Amitri’s Justin Currie has faced every tough crowd imaginable. Lessons were learn
Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws, the lost world of mix tapes & the movies’ most chilling moment
The late Nick Drake’s manager on the nine-year project “The Making Of Five Leaves Left”
Suzi Quatro - how Dad, Elvis and Mickie Most transformed my life
New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album ever made”.
Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good story?
John Otway – Micro-stardom, 5,000 gigs and how to capture a crowd in 20 seconds
Peter Hook looks back at Joy Division, New Order and how not to be a DJ
Live Aid remembered – from inside and out – on its 40th birthday
Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull and 58 years of one-legged live performance
Album sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening lines
Bobby Bluebell’s thriving third act, ‘80s Glasgow and the gift that keeps on giving
Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records
Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape onstage”
10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye
When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre
Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour
The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations
Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth
Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years …
Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé in a Stetson
Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own
Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger
Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury still makes headlines
Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of eight
Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13
Books rock stars want you to read, sacked drummers and how Dylan spent his birthday
Dylan Jones bangs the drum for 1975, an explosion of talent and creativity
The great lost Beach Boys SMiLE album – David Leaf unravels rock’s Holy Grail
The best songs written in seconds, Lennon’s legs and Springsteen’s chimes of freedom.
Dennis Greaves, Nine Below Zero – old-school R&B, police and thieves and the agony of white clogs
Peter Capaldi’s life in a teenage Glasgow punk band and a public apology to the Cocteau Twins
Alan Parsons – from the rooftop of Savile Row to Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and some singing pigs
Mom Rock v Dad Rock, the Oasis rumour mill and Kanye West’s devious dentist.
Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California
The greatest duet, rock cameos in Miami Vice and the rebirth of Mississippi John Hurt
Al Murray and James Holland talk the ending of the war in 1945 and the afterlife of The Beatles
Derek Shulman – when Simon Dupree and Gentle Giant were “the darlings of the English Mafia”
The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!
Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents
Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan
Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache
Dave Pegg, Fairport’s “longest-serving member” (fnarr!) looks back at hippie chaos and old heroes
Withering reviews of famous albums, Jaws versus Jeeves and the genius of Blondie’s Clem Burke
Why Sparks’ Russell Mael preferred British acts to the ‘faux honesty’ of Laurel Canyon
Seven ‘lost’ Springsteen albums, romance in sitcoms and the age of spectacle
Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’.
AI’s Word In Your Ear theme tune (!!), the four stages of showbiz & taking kids to concerts
Hearing 45 year-old records you’d never played & the least likely-looking person to become a rock star
What Kate Mossman discovered about rock’s elder statesmen
How John Harris and his son found a life-changing connection through music
Mike Rutherford looks back at 60 years onstage and the art of cheap rock theatre
Mike Scott of the Waterboys remembers the shows that inspired him
The lost world of teenage love songs – and the best pop song ever written!
Nik Kershaw remembers Live Aid, snoods, fingerless gloves & a sudden male-female audience shift
Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage
Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how to make a speech
Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immediate Family”
Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie
The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St
Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John
Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler
Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues
Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations
Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”
Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard
Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark
The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey
So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave
Did Britain invent the rock band? - plus our new laws about music & Garth Hudson RIP
Howard Jones has ‘the best job in the world’
Andy Fairweather Low’s teenage psychedelic stardom
A 3-part rant about LPs sold as ‘antiques’, TikTok & the shameful AI Michael Parkinson
The unstoppable Francis Rossi – open the fridge door and he’ll do 30 minutes
Graham Nash beat the Beatles in a talent contest
The Dylan biopic, Sam & Dave and why 2025 is the most important year in our lives.
Johnnie Walker, pop’s golden year and what’s wrecking rock documentaries.
How Dylan and Leonard Cohen punctured the Summer Of Love plus the birth of blockbuster album
Why we have enough Christmas hits plus the greatest songs about money
Bill Bailey celebrates “the things that make us human”.
How Al Stewart struck gold, the folk boom and a flat-share with Paul Simon
‘Mystique is dead’: what Gary Kemp learnt in 40 years of making and selling records
The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles
The greatest sax solo, YMCA, musical one-night stands and Tom Hanks’ wise advice
How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits
The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets & Trump’s guitars
How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them
Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual delight
Danny Baker - the panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote with a taste of his upcoming tour
The Band Aid recording, the birth of the tape loop and the power of the movie theme tune
How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong
John Lydon on the genius of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and the fine art of Spoken Word
The poshest pop star ever, music in Xmas ads and song lyrics we can still recite
Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman
Peter Perrett of the Only Ones – teenage life, a wondrous return and a 35-year lost weekend.
Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blockbuster
The genius of George Harrison and why he’s still underrated
Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds - his Year Zero moment, Imposter Syndrome and seeing the Beatles (aged 7)
Kraftwerk, Cream, Nirvana, savage reviews, fantasy girlfriends and a naked Nick Cave ‘plush doll’
Life with the Lennons, fame, friendship, the FBI and the Lost Weekend – by Elliot Mintz.
How Goth took over, farewell Phil Lesh and the curse of teenage stardom
When Mark King of Level 42 was the 11 year-old singing drummer in a novelty act
King Crimson, red hair dye and a singing Jack Russell: the boisterous memoir of Jakko Jakszyk
Obsessive fans, Dylan’s reading list and how Taylor Swift tickets are the new codeword for wealth
Britpop, its peaks and its spiritual godfather: a Golden Age rebooted by Miranda Sawyer
Zappa and Elvis as fathers (!), Billy Joel’s house sale and the curse of too much choice
Hugh Cornwell on how the drummer has the best seat in the house
Kris Kristofferson, a lost Tom Petty film and rock stars and the curse of the selfie
How Christine McVie saw Fleetwood Mac and the real reason she left them – by Lesley-Ann Jones
Nick Heyward dressed like Cary Grant – then the Jam, XTC and Talking Heads. “It’s all about clothes, hair and shoes.”
In the studio with Nick Drake, Fairport, John Martyn & the String Band: John Wood remembers a golden age
Ian Hunter – joining Mott The Hoople, Bowie, Hamburg and being “enthused into craziness”.
Bryan Ferry, Maggie Smith and why Ian Hunter is a movie in waiting
When Cocteau Twins followed the Ramones onstage and why 1979 was the Golden Age - by Simon Raymonde
The deep secret of Abba’s “music without nostalgia” and the time they met the Pistols
Fond memories of lost ‘80s London, Morrissey v Marr and the film they should make about Toyah
Swinging London & the Wombles seen from an electric-blue Rolls-Royce. Mike Batt looks back
Joe Boyd – Little Richard, Nick Drake, Tight Fit and why everything sounds the way it does
Screaming Jay Hawkins 75, Dave Grohl 1
One Day author David Nicholls – prog rock, Live Aid and making tapes for girls
Nick Lowe – war stories, wise decisions and the event in 1970 that made him think again
The Buskers’ Hall of Fame – from Moondog and Billy Bragg to Don Partridge and “the skating Sikh”.
Who should follow John Lydon with a Spoken Word spectacular?
David Hepworth on the glory, comedy and tragedy of rock stars who can't retire
The Oasis reunion – feuds, cash, symbolism and the desire to repair our imperfect lives
Are comedians more competitive than rock stars?
Johnny Beatle’, early Blondie, Led Zeppelin’s plane and seven fabulous years at the Melody Maker.
One-word rock star mimicry, bands who shouldn’t reform & the best thing about Taylor Swift
The extraordinary story of Arthur Lee, Love and the 1966 flop which became a hit for the ages
Buddy Holly airlines and the inimitable Bob Dylan
“Pop music is 80 per cent about hair”, remaking classic albums and why CDs are so hard to love
Queen, Bowie and other residents of Rockfield Studios remembered by the cook’s daughter
57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelations
Ron Sexsmith doesn’t need a teleprompter. He can do 40 Dylan songs at the drop of a hat
Without John Mayall … no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo or Led Zeppelin?
Best album sleeves, what’s ruined singing and pop as ‘empowerment porn’
Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?
Backstage at Live Aid, the first Knebworth and bands that don’t get on
How Joni Mitchell joined the boys’ club and why we don’t need a comeback – by Ann Powers
Twist And Shout? Spiral Scratch? Corey duBrowa celebrates the best and rarest EPs ever made
What songs should be longer or shorter?
Dylan Jones – Clegg’s women, Hague’s pints and “the wiring behind celebrity culture”
Happy accidents, whooping at gigs and why the album review star system doesn’t work anymore
Pop football chants, Reg ‘Reg’ Snipton sings Joni Mitchell & the tale of John Lennon’s watch
Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake
The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are
For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve
Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey
Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”
Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune
Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)
Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond
Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?
The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999
Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!
It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!
Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair
How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same
Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?
For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”
Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans
The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury
Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python
Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys
Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle
Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head
Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell
Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued
TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?
Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records
Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space
Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock
Noel Coward, Gallagher & Squire’s superpower summit & the art of the Bob Dylan backbeat
Hipgnosis album art, the hardest working man in showbiz & the moment the world went mad
Denny Laine, the Move’s catastrophic court case & the man who's made 700 albums in 2 years
The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Kenneth Womack
A drink to Shane MacGowan, Spinal Tap rebooted and lunch with Randy Newman
Pauline Murray’s kids have finally found out what Mum did in the Punk Wars
Glen Matlock and the ‘Sliding Doors moment’ that sparked the punk rock fuse
Does anyone know more about rock stars than Jenny Boyd?
Who’s next for an AI movie, first use of sampling & rock stars in unsuitable clothes
Kanye West & the billion dollar gym pumps plus the album sleeve that changed the game
The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black and white”
Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Jude Rogers
Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why
Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea
The KLF torched £1m "and are haunted by it daily". John Higgs knows why
What did we think of the Beatles' last hurrah?
For Ian Broudie & the Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions' has been a blessing and a curse
Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath
The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio One memo!
Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writing songs about
The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Spence
Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and a luverly bunch of coconuts, by Peter Watts
Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to protest music?
Jarvis v Jacko and why drummers are like goalkeepers. Let Pulp’s Nick Banks be your guide
Smoking on album sleeves, Smash Hits The Musical and records you own but have never played
Echo & the Bunnymen, why the rock press were “divs” and the secret of good hair by Will Sergeant
An Insider’s Guide To Goth by Cathi Unsworth (via Cruella De Vil and the Cure)
Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack
Gary Numan, unlikely sex symbols and U2’s £1,000 night in the desert
Does Gary Numan regret throwing the glo-stick that hit David Bowie?
Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record shop of your dreams”.
Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t have any of their records
The “unknown woman” in McCartney’s photos, the Human League and a new U2 game
Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Macca and more
The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos
Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews
What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sinead and Iggy Pop
Which acts will “go down in history” and what matters more than their music?
Bob Dylan - why he signs autographs left-handed and other mysteries solved by Ray Padgett
Achtung Baby, rock fantasy friends and the band that inspired the Bad News Tour
Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake history” of Punk
Sinead O’Connor, that Morrissey outburst, over-long films and the pitiful plight of roadies
Tales of Hipgnosis sleeves (and the new film) and why the world needs Steely Dan more than ever
PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17
The things Bruce and Bing have in common and the adventures of Punch in 1976 clubland
Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him
Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “cider like turps”
Wham!, Rock Follies and lost ‘70s prog foot-soldiers Renia – we will remember them!
Cocteau Twins song or Farrow & Ball paint colour? plus the day Beatlemania began
Grotesque/brilliant sleeves plus does upping the price make a ticket more desirable?
Harvey Lisberg – managing 10cc, meeting Elvis and “Peter Noone’s extra tooth”
Record shops in movies and what Glenda Jackson did that no other actor ever dared try
Revenge songs, Nick Drake and that sorry tale about Primal Scream
Word In The Park 2023 #4 – Clare Grogan's adventures in TV, film and music
Word In The Park 2023: How the Beatles and James Bond shaped us all
Word In The Park 2023 #2 – 60 years of the Bee Gees with Bob Stanley
Word In The Park 2023: 60 years of the Stones with Lesley-Ann Jones
What bands are becoming unfashionable?
Which is the most two-faced world - movies, music or daytime TV?
Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Party 7”
Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!
“Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance.”
Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage
John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground
The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?
Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s last fandangos
Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?
15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier (aged two) …
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?
Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel culture
For the love of Wayne Shorter & David Lindley - and are U2 really U2 without Larry Mullen?
Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?
Was the pop boom of 1996-2006 a comedy or a tragedy?
What the Beatles said about the Stones plus the most expensive live music in London
Was Chuck Berry the strangest man in the history of rock?
Word Down Your Way: 15 minutes with Mark Everett – E from Eels - about shows he's seen and played
What’s the best age to be and when are we at our most stupid?
Burt Bacharach, Waters v Gilmour and how to save the BRITS
15 minutes with Midge Ure about shows he's seen and played
George Harrison and the T-Bone steak, rock fantasy football teams & spot the AI lyrics!
Ron Sexsmith - heading your way in April – remembers “life-changing” shows seen over the years
Joel De’ath, “the Indiana Jones of rare vinyl”, describes his hunt for the Holy Grail
Peter Asher: singer, producer, manager, main role model for Austin Powers
Farewell Tom Verlaine – plus terrible records we can’t help loving
The Long Ryders are heading your way - and it all began with a “red negligee” …
Farewell David Crosby plus “classic” records that leave us cold
Suzanne Vega: she started at Carnegie Hall and she's coming to a town near you in February
Jeff Beck “had a boom-tish anecdote about every step of his life”
Tony King – friend, adviser and confidante: you can see why the Beatles, Stones and Elton thought he was the best company imaginable
The greatest singer of all time? (we know the answer)
The transformational role of the bus in ‘60s pop: discuss!
The deliciously eccentric life and art of Ivor Cutler by his biographer Bruce Lindsay
The things rock made us wear
Strokes producer Gordon Raphael on the serendipitous creation of 'Is This It'
Jet Black, exotic Americans and Oscar Hammerstein’s joke
Word Down Your Way: Danny Baker with a taste of his thunderous one-man stand-up circus, back on the road in 2023
Stories Christine McVie told us - including “Freddie King fixed my puncture”
Phil Jump tells the story of the legendary Badlands - and the day he took Steve Van Zandt to Brian Jones’s grave
A farewell to Wilko – “Dr Feelgood didn’t play the music, the music played them.”
Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass”
If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import
Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stewart
Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever made?
Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
All of your rock heroes have had work done
King Crimson, Dave Vanian’s shoe and seeing one of the world’s most famous women on a train
50 years of Nuggets, Ian Brown’s karaoke and is there a band name worse than Jealous Nostril?
Hilary Mantel, Zappa track or ad slogan and the day Beefheart sold Aldous Huxley a vacuum-cleaner
Our farewell to the most famous person in the world (and the story of a brief encounter)
You’re not going to Duran Duran’s Halloween party dressed like that!
Celebrity mash-ups! An afternoon with Billy Joel, Ivanka Trump, Bono, Geldof and Rupert Murdoch
The horror, the horror! Why you MUST see the new Woodstock ’99 documentary
In praise of Bernard Cribbins, Clive James and the noble art of guitar-smashing
Why half the people at a gig don't really want to be there
Dave Grohl reaches ‘Meldrew age’, Be Here Now’s 25th birthday and the sex life of Dave Davies
How much of ‘Indie’ is just shoes and hair?
Chris Blackwell remembers the “underdogs, rejects and misfits” he signed to Island Records
Danny Baker and Graham Gouldman at our live McCartney 80th birthday special!
Paul McCartney in the Park: our 80th birthday special (Part One!)
What links The Day Of The Jackal, Supertramp, the Sun and James Callaghan?
The new Elvis movie and why we loved it
Why music is largely about everything but music
Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and how to ‘rockwash’ your tarnished reputation
Has any actor played a rock star convincingly?
You spent HOW MUCH on speakers?
Can bands still “sell out”? - plus 50 years of Exile On Main Street and RIP the iPod
The world’s rarest records and the sartorial splendour of the satin tour jacket
Kate Rusby (12) bought Bon Jovi tapes on hire purchase from Casa Disco in Barnsley
It’s our fantasy seven-decade Queen’s Jubilee line -up!
You’re either a t-shirt act or a non t-shirt act: discuss
Which band played the Old Grey Whistle Test and was then completely forgotten?
‘Streaming Killed the Skit Track’ plus Toastface Grillah and the Sgt Peppermill
We spot Will “Slapper” Smith’s biggest mistake at the Oscars and salute Ben Sidran’s foot
No Top Of The Pops. No NME or Smash Hits covers. What do bands dream of now?
How did ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ get released without a parental advisory sticker?
There’s only been one truly original group and we know who they are
Which bands were ALL good–looking? 15 contenders considered...
Why $15m for Britney Spears’ memoir is “a bargain” and the curious tale of A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Why do all bands seem ludicrous apart from the ones you personally like?
Does anyone capture the spirit of a place better than Van Morrison’s Belfast? – plus some underrated ‘70s tracks
The story of Don Henley’s the Boys of Summer, £10k headphones and ‘I’m Getting Buried In The Morning’ …
Morrissey v Marr, Neil Young v Spotify, Albarn v Swift – it’s a Pop Tiffs special!
The pleasing eccentricities of Jonathan Richman plus Natalie Umbrella-Stand, Christina Aqualibra and “Neil Aspinall: The Movie”
Ronnie Spector, the Day Of The Jackal and why no-one screams at musicians with beards
The inventor of the rock logo and why Rick Wakeman’s owed a fortune
The Summer Of Soul movie, Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense and listening to 1,000 albums a year
Rock memoirs that need to be written, the Porridge Christmas Special and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
Mike Nesmith, Don’t You Want Me and Sly Stone’s drum machine
Alternative Xmas songs, Zappa’s worst year, Milk Almond and the Happy Mung Beans
Sex In The Sixties - let Peter Doggett be your guide
John Illsley tells the Dire Straits story
Sondheim, the Band Aid recording and the first F-word on record
Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”
Elvis Costello, aka rock’s “greatest communicator”
Inscrutable album covers and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
McCartney’s lyrics & the Tom Tom Club plus Lionel Blair and other rhyming slang immortals
Happy 50th to the Pink Moon recording sessions!
Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene”.
Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness
The best five tracks of the ‘70s and massive applause for Paul Simon (80)
Kacey Musgraves’ naked TV appearance restaged by Alex Gold
Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan
The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers
"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"
Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”
A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test
Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”
"Pop music + distance = sadness"
For the love of Charlie Watts
John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s and 60s
From Tom T Hall to the Weeley Festival by way of Una Stubbs
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Danny Baker
The extraordinary life of Louis Armstrong plus George Harrison rebooted
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Mark Lewisohn
The mysterious connection between Zappa and Sparks
Amy Winehouse, XTC and the joy of "re-loved CDs"
Word in The Park #2: Lesley-Ann Jones remembers John Entwistle’s riotous funeral
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Gary Crowley
How do songs become terrace anthems?
Flat Rabbit, Mandible Rumpus ... what makes a band name work?
Bob Geldof: an unmissable hour of insight into rock stardom
Rock band gangs you want to join
If the England Squad were a rock band which would they be?
DJ Princess Diana
Joni Mitchell's golden month remembered
Favourite critics and pop star stamps
Bernie Marsden on the blues boom, "mailbox money", UFO and Whitesnake
The Bob Dylan million dollar 80th birthday bash
Richard Thompson on Fairport and Sandy Denny's "Gustav Mahler emotional see-saw"
Burglary and bluebeat in a brilliant new Madness documentary
Joel Selvin on "a sylvan moment in Hollywood history"
Bob Marley RIP (who died 40 years ago on May 11)
Rickie Lee Jones promotes "thumping good read"!
Does every act have a gimmick?
The eternal battles between Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf
On Jagger's ropey new single and what made the Stones a dance band
Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley on the folklore of the Fall
Original gangs that are still together
What pop music will still be around in 200 years' time?
"It ain’t 'alf been a gas this time!"
A 1971 Special on Nick Drake and Led Zeppelin at the Nottingham Boat Club
The enduring magic of the mixtape
The undignified history of the Ponytail In Rock
Happy 50th, Nick Drake and the Stones 'farewell' tour!
A guided tour chez Dolly Parton!
The Greatest Love Songs Ever Written
Tom Lehrer, payola and the Midnight Train to Georgia
The story about Phil Collins, George Harrison and the congas ...
Where Dolly and Phil Spector meet PG Wodehouse ...
It's all gone Sea Shanty!
Neil Young and the concert that invented 'the whoop'
The priceless mishaps of Fleetwood Mac
To the sunlit uplands of the new Let It Be movie!
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 365 - to the sunlit uplands of the new Let It Be movie!
Word Podcast 364 - in stout defence of the Bee Gees
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 364 - in stout defence of the Bee Gees
Word Podcast 363 - $300m for Dylan catalogue "a bargain"
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 363 - $300m for Dylan catalogue officially "a bargain"
Word Podcast 362 - does anyone form a band any more?
Word Podcast 362 (audio version) - does anyone form a band any more?
Word Podcast 361 - & when did YOU last listen to Apple Jam?
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 361 - and when did YOU last listen to 'Apple Jam'?
Word Podcast 360 - George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 360 - 'George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the Movie!'
Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo Diddley
Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!
Word Podcast 357 - Andy Neill on Ready, Steady, Go!
Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly Simon and her sister ...
Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today ...
*EARLY ACCESS* Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today...
Word Podcast 354 - Rob Halford
Word Podcast 353 - can you be too handsome for rock & roll?
EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 353 - can you be too good looking for rock and roll?
Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums
EARLY ACCESS: Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albums
Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80
Word Podcast 351 - Lennon at 80 and the mystifying mysteries of the mysterious Marvel movies
Word Podcast 350 - do we still need Greatest Album lists?
Word Podcast 350 - do we still need these Greatest Album lists?
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Word Podcast 348 - David Hepworth book launch Crowdcast
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns we missed
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
Word Podcast 345 - Justin Quirk on glam metal
Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
Word Podcast 344: Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
Word Podcast 343 - Kenneth Womack on Lennon's last days
Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of Bowie's dentalwork
Word Podcast 342 - a close inspection of David Bowie's dentalwork
Word Podcast 341 - Joe Banks
Word Podcast 340 - power shift in favour of rock audience!
Word Podcast 340 - the power shift in favour of the rock audience has begun!
Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
Word Podcast 339 - David's day at Donna Summer's house
Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
Word Podcast 338 - Shea Stadium revisited
Word Podcast 337 - David Mitchell
Word Podcast 337 - David Mitchell on why writing about the rock boom of 1967 is "an open goal"
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary...
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary: 50 and 40 years ago this week!
Word Podcast 335
Word Podcast 335 - Live Aid's "2,000 million global audience": surely some mistake?
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records"
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
Word Podcast 331 - It's the Bob Dylan Lyric Generator!
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Word Podcast 328 - There's no fame like LP cover fame!
Podcast 328 - There's no fame like LP cover fame!
Word Podcast 327 - It's three lemons in a row...
Podcast 327: It's three lemons in a row for Richard Thompson!
Word Podcast 326 - the Sony Walkman's 40th birthday...
Word Podcast 326: the Sony Walkman's 40th birthday and how Astrid Kirchherr invented Indie
Word Podcast 325 - Fairport's momentous year...
Word Podcast 325
Word Podcast 324 - How to impersonate Roy Orbison...
EARLY ACCESS Word Podcast 324 - How to impersonate Roy Orbison and other pop parlour games
Word Podcast 323 - this week's lockdown winners are...
Word Podcast 322 - playing Pink Floyd Snap...
Word Podcast 321 - How long does lockdown have to last...
Word Podcast 320 - paying tribute...
Word Podcast 319 - another unashamedly trivial podcast...
Word Podcast 318 - A "for the duration" podcast
Word Podcast 317 - Pete Paphides
Word Podcast 316 - Dan Franklin
Word Podcast 315 - John Mitchinson and Andy Miller
Word Podcast 314 - Bethan Roberts
Word Podcast 312 - Mike Barnes
Word Podcast 313 - Sid Smith
Word Podcast 311 - Alexis Petridis
Word Podcast 310 - Barney Hoskyns
Word Podcast 309 - Andrew Collins
Word Podcast 308 - Graham Parker
Word Podcast 307 - Dylan Jones
Word Podcast 306 - Daniel Rachel
Word Podcast 305 - Dave Lewis
Word Podcast 304 - Ian Penman
Word Podcast 303 - Will Birch
Word Podcast 302 - Peter Doggett
Word Podcast 301 - The Analogues
Word Podcast 300 - Mick Houghton
Word Podcast 299 - Anne Dudley
Word Podcast 298 - Gary Crowley
Word Podcast 297 - Eamonn Forde
Word Podcast 296 - A Fabulous Creation
Word Podcast 295 - Midge Ure
Word Podcast 294 - David Hepworth & Friends
Word Podcast 293 - Mark Blake
Word Podcast 292 - Kenneth Womack
Word Podcast 291 - Billy Bragg
Word Podcast 215 - Chas Hodges
Word Podcast 290 - Mark King
Word Podcast 289 - Mark Kermode
Word Podcast 288 - Seymour Stein
Word Podcast 287 - Stuart Baillie
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Word Podcast 283 - Neil Innes
Word Podcast 282 - Garth Cartwright
Word Podcast 281 - Sir Tim Rice
Word Podcast 280 - Richard Newman
Word Podcast 279 - Ian Anderson
Word Podcast 278 - Danny Baker
Word Podcast 277 - Robert Forster
Word Podcast 276 - Armando Iannucci
Word Podcast 275 - Dylan Jones
Word Podcast 274 - Chris Difford
Word podcast 273 - with Daniel Rachel
Word podcast 272 - Johnny Rogan and Sid Griffin
Word Podcast 271 - with Sarfraz Manzoor
Word Podcast 270 - Uncommon People
Word Podcast 269 - Thomas Dolby
Word Podcast 268 - John Ingham
Word Podcast 267 - Miranda Sawyer and Barry McIlheney
Word Podcast 266 - Tom Doyle on Elton Hercules John
Word Podcast 265 - David “Ram Jam” Rodigan
Word Podcast 264 - Tessa Niles and Gina Foster talking BVs
Word Podcast 263 - Jon Savage shortcast
Word Podcast 262 - Tony Fletcher
Word Podcast 261 - Barney Hoskyns
Word Podcast 260 - Jeff Evans
Word Podcast 259 - with Paul Gambaccini
Word Podcast 258 - Mick Houghton & Adam White
Word Podcast 257 - Richard Houghton
Word Podcast 256 - Paul Morley on David Bowie
Word Podcast 255 - Hunter Davies
Word Podcast 254 - Sylvia Patterson
Word Podcast 253 - Derek Ridgers
Word Podcast 252 - David and Caroline Stafford
Word Podcast 251 - Alan Shypton on Harry Nilsson
Word Podcast 250: 1971 - Never A Dull Moment
Word Podcast 249 - with Zoë Howe
Word Podcast 248 - with Graeme Thompson
Word Podcast 247 - with Jon Savage
Word Podcast 246 - with Howard Sounes
Word Podcast 245 - Elvis Costello
Word Podcast 244 - The Skypecast
Word Podcast 243 - The Peelcast
Word Podcast 242 - Chris Salewicz
Word Podcast 241 - The McCartneycast
Word Podcast 240 - with Patrick Woodroffe
Podcast 239 - with Peter Doggett
Word Podcast 238 - Mick Wall
Word Podcast 237 - Live Aid
Word Podcast 236 - Clare Grogan
Word Podcast 235 - Johnnie Walker
Podcast 234 - Johnny Rogan
Podcast 233: Mick Taylor’s got the shits…
Word Podcast 232 - Rick Buckler
Word Podcast 231 - Richard Goldstein
Word Podcast 230 - Norman Jopling
Word Podcast 229 - Fairport Convention
Word Podcast 228 - The Bobcast
Word Pod 227 - Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites
Richard Balls and Mark Lewisohn
Word Podcast 225 - Remembering Smash Hits
Word Podcast 223 — Danny Baker
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Word Podcast 222 — Zoe Howe
Word Podcast 221 — Ben Watt
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Word Podcast 218 - Where's The Crisps?
Word Podcast 217 - with Bob Harris
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Word Podcast 215 - with Chas Hodges
Word Podcast 214 - with Graham Gouldman
Word Shortcast - The Blockheads
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Word Podcast 211 - with Andrew Collins
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Word Podcast 206 - with Scritti Politti
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Word Shortcast - Eliza Carthy
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Word Podcast 201: The Basscast
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Word Podcast 193 - the Smilecast
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Word Podcast 190 - the Gastropodcast
Word Podcast 189 - with Jonathan Coe
Word Podcast 188 - the Bowiecast
Word Podcast 187 - The 40 Noises That Built Pop
Word Podcast 186 - The Queencast
Word Podcast 185 - with Thomas Dolby
Word Podcast 184 - with David Ford
Word Podcast 183 - Amy Winehouse, and our boat trip
Word Podcast 182 - The Britpopcast
Word Podcast 180 - Latitude Day Two, with Robin Ince & TMBG
Word Podcast 181 - Latitude Day Three
Word Podcast 179 - Latitude Day One, with Simon Armitage
Word Podcast 178 - with John Hiatt
Word Podcast 177 - The Beatlecast
Word Podcast 176 - with Tony Wadsworth
Word Podcast 175 - with Brett Anderson
Word Podcast 174 - with Danny Baker
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Word Podcast 172 - The Bobcast
Word Podcast 171 - with Van Dyke Parks
Word Podcast 170 - with Neil Tennant
Word Podcast 169 - with Delta Maid and Daniel Tashian
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Word Podcast 167: Top Of The Pops Special
Word Podcast 166 - with Christian Ward
Word Podcast 165 - with Ian McMillan
Word Podcast 164: Precious Memories and Inky Fingers
Word Podcast 163: cough buttons in Japanese toilets
Word Podcast 162: From the Brits to Beechams
Word Podcast 161: Gary Moore remembered
Word Podcast 160: what does a Wichita Lineman actually do?
Word Podcast 159: Keith Moon & good spelling
Word Podcast 158: Is rock dead?
Word Podcast 157: Elton's sunglasses & Richard Thompson's beret
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Word Podcast 155 - with Will MacDonald
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Word Podcast 150 - with Devon Sproule & Paul Curreri
Word Podcast 149 - with Sean Wilentz
Word Podcast 148 - with Dom Joly
Word Podcast 147 - with Phill Jupitus and Trevor Dann
Word Podcast 146 - a quick chat with Andrew Harrison re: iTunes
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Word Podcast 144 - with Wilko Johnson
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Word Podcast 140 with Robert Forster
Word Podcast 139 with Jim White and Mat Priest
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Word Podcast 130 - with Eamonn Forde
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Word Podcast 122 - with Idris Elba
Word Podcast 121 - Phil Smee, reissue man
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Word Podcast 119 - The Christmas Special
Word Podcast 118 - All about swearing
Word Podcast 117 with Mark Hagen
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Word Podcast 112 - the smell of record shops
Word podcast 111 (The Nelson)
The Word Podcast is back from its holidays
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The Word's Legendary Glastonburycast
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The Word's Hidden Track
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