{"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":"Talk Talk, a deep-dive tale of mystery and imagination","slug":"talk-talk-a-deep-dive-tale-of-mystery-and-imagination","published_at":"2026-05-04T14:06:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/talk-talk-a-deep-dive-tale-of-mystery-and-imagination","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/69f8a7ea836b4ec71864edbd/media.mp3","summary":"Talk Talk made just five albums, all written and recorded unconventionally and no-one’s entirely sure how they did it. And in the last two decades of his life Mark Hollis released only 92 seconds of music. Lifelong admirer Graeme Thomson explores the band’s endless mysteries in his memoir ‘In Another World: the Four Seasons of Talk Talk’, and looks back here at the last hurrah of the days of studio extravagance, which includes …   … why Traffic in 1967 was the Mark Hollis Holy Grail   … “25 per cent of him never appeared above the surface”   … the Talk Talk ‘human sampling’ method – eg a few seconds of Danny Thompson, Steve Gadd or Larry Klein woven into the mix   … “music made with the blindfold on”   … the ‘80s press reaction to Mark’s eulogies about Miles Davis, Stockhausen and Shostakovich   … where you can hear Talk Talk in the music of Kate Bush   … making records the way Kubrick made films   … head music: how Spirit of Eden suits the rebirth of headphones   … band lynchpin Tim Friese-Greene, producer of the Lion Sleeps Tonight!   … what unlimited time and choice does to a studio bill   … and the 92 seconds of music he made for the Kelsey Grammer TV series Boss.   Order ‘In Another World: the Four Seasons of Talk Talk’ here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/In-Another-World/Graeme-Thomson/9781917923613 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":"Talk Talk made just five albums, all written and recorded unconventionally and no-one’s entirely sure how they did it. And in the last two decades of his…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2714,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-3755187/episodes/talk-talk-a-deep-dive-tale-of-mystery-and-imagination/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/talk-talk-a-deep-dive-tale-of-mystery-and-imagination.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}