{"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":"Siouxsie, Nico, Cocteaus, Shangri-Las, Bobbie Gentry … a celebration of the sound of Goth!","slug":"siouxsie-nico-cocteaus-shangri-las-bobbie-gentry-a-celebration-of-the-sound-of-goth","published_at":"2026-05-28T17:03:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/siouxsie-nico-cocteaus-shangri-las-bobbie-gentry-a-celebration-of-the-sound-of-goth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187","url":"https://shows.acast.com/word-in-your-ear-2/episodes/word-podcast-915-cathi-unsworth","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a18756f8fd07475b5861911/media.mp3","summary":"Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved her book ‘Season of the Witch’ and she’s since put together a soundtrack album, ‘Dressed In Black’, featuring the Goth divas she most admires and adores. And talks to us here about everything from murder ballads, the Industrial Revolution and Victorian literature to …   … John Peel, Siouxsie, Joy Division and her teenage Goth conversion among the “hedge-goths” and “field-goths” of rural Norfolk   … the phenomenal life, lyrics and mysterious disappearance of ‘Swamp-witch’ Bobbie Gentry   … has Goth eaten Punk?   … why BBC banned Billie Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday”   … the ‘death discs’ of John Layton, the Shangri-Las and Twinkle   … how Cabaret and Julie Driscoll coloured Siouxsie and the Banshees   … Shirley Collins’ Death And The Lady – “now that’s what I call a pandemic!”   … did Liz Fraser speak fluent Faerie?   … Nico – “if I had a machine-gun I’d kill you all!”   … and how Juliette Gréco looked the devil in the face.   Order copies of ‘Dressed In Black: Goth Divas From The Dark Side’ here: https://acerecords.co.uk/various-artists-dressed-in-black 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":"Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved her b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1864,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-3755187/episodes/siouxsie-nico-cocteaus-shangri-las-bobbie-gentry-a-celebration-of-the-sound-of-goth/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/siouxsie-nico-cocteaus-shangri-las-bobbie-gentry-a-celebration-of-the-sound-of-goth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}