{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-3755187","podcast_index_feed_id":3755187,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809?cache=false","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/1620937674526-4e6eb29c967e869bd9d5a9d205d55599.jpeg","author":"Word In Your Ear","episode_count":986,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T06:19:56.425854+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187"},"episode":{"title":"Madonna smoking, the first indie PM and have we just witnessed the nadir of pop?!","slug":"madonna-smoking-the-first-indie-pm-and-have-we-just-witnessed-the-nadir-of-pop","published_at":"2026-06-29T18:58:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/madonna-smoking-the-first-indie-pm-and-have-we-just-witnessed-the-nadir-of-pop","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a42c03e3fa89e3338b6093e/media.mp3","summary":"Tapping the barometer of news to see what’s blistering or stormy, which this week includes …   … “The Man can’t bust our music!”: the crimes and misdemeanours of Clive Davis   … the single biggest change in our lifetimes   ... when did musicians become ‘artists’?   … Johnny Marr’s guitar habit   … unlimited cash and what we’d spend it on   … Madonna smoking at Paris Fashion Week hoping someone would try to stop her   … why Dave doesn’t own any Arista records   … which five Paul Simon songs became film titles?   … a Prime Minister who loves ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’ by Big Thief!   … 56 year-old takes annual Dark Side of the Moon test: “and I still don’t like it!”   … are there more registered songwriters or lorry drivers?   Plus the biopic boom and birthday guest Andrew Stocks has a senior moment. Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Tapping the barometer of news to see what’s blistering or stormy, which this week includes … … “The Man can’t bust our music!”: the crimes and misd…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3730,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-3755187/episodes/madonna-smoking-the-first-indie-pm-and-have-we-just-witnessed-the-nadir-of-pop/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/madonna-smoking-the-first-indie-pm-and-have-we-just-witnessed-the-nadir-of-pop.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}