{"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":"Paul Simon, Bad Bunny, how songwriting changed & the scourge of Blue Dot Fever!","slug":"paul-simon-bad-bunny-how-songwriting-changed-the-scourge-of-blue-dot-fever","published_at":"2026-05-11T14:51:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/paul-simon-bad-bunny-how-songwriting-changed-the-scourge-of-blue-dot-fever","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/6a01ed03b443364556ee3887/media.mp3","summary":"It’s polling day for this week’s news and these are the stories that got our vote …   ... Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor and how ‘Blue Dot Fever’ is wrecking ticket sales   … how can you judge a songwriter with eight collaborators?   … Dylan’s ‘Judas’ moment 60 years later   … is everything becoming binary: thumbs-up or thumbs-down?   … Grandmaster Flash, Augustus Pablo, George McRea, Tangerine Dream and the times brand new music was invented   … when certain dances got you arrested   … Alice in Sunderland? See You In My Drums? Shadows’ song titles rebooted   … the hilarious self-positioning of the NME critics’ poll … plus jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and thrill of imagining the sound of acts who were never recorded. Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear 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":"It’s polling day for this week’s news and these are the stories that got our vote … ... Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor and how ‘Blue Dot Fever’ is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3000,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-3755187/episodes/paul-simon-bad-bunny-how-songwriting-changed-the-scourge-of-blue-dot-fever/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/paul-simon-bad-bunny-how-songwriting-changed-the-scourge-of-blue-dot-fever.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}