{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-4162240","podcast_index_feed_id":4162240,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809","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":"2026-07-24T06:20:01.393127+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240"},"episode":{"title":"Brian Eno’s restless creative adventures with Roxy, Bowie, U2 and Talking Heads","slug":"brian-eno-s-restless-creative-adventures-with-roxy-bowie-u2-and-talking-heads","published_at":"2026-05-15T11:11:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240/brian-eno-s-restless-creative-adventures-with-roxy-bowie-u2-and-talking-heads","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a06ff4868dc584eda25d5af/media.mp3","summary":"For nearly 60 years, Brian Eno has been a “proud non-musician” who changed the way people thought and sounded while inventing whole new ways of recording. We loved reading the updated edition of ‘On Some Faraway Beach’ which examines his staggering catalogue of avant garde experiment and wonders if there’s anyone remotely like him. Author David Sheppard looks back with us here at …   … a life of great good fortune: “luck is being ready”   … the rivalry with Bryan Ferry sparked by his getting more attention … and girls   ... where you can hear the effect on his Oblique Strategy cards on the Bowie recordings   ... the ingenious way he made U2 make up their minds   … his first experience of immersive sound via the organ his granddad built in the family home   … why Wire’s Colin Newman calling him “a Class A Bullshitter” was a compliment   … Bono: “We didn’t go to art school, we went to Brian Eno”   … was Coldplay “a Rubicon he should never have crossed?”   … the appeal of the sculptured sound of early ‘70s synths to someone who couldn’t play keyboards   … his greatest record, Another Green World, and the time he heard Music For Airports playing in an airport   Order copies of On Some Faraway Beach here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Faraway-Beach-Times-Brian/dp/1399605712/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 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":"For nearly 60 years, Brian Eno has been a “proud non-musician” who changed the way people thought and sounded while inventing whole new ways of recording.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1859,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-4162240/episodes/brian-eno-s-restless-creative-adventures-with-roxy-bowie-u2-and-talking-heads/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-4162240/brian-eno-s-restless-creative-adventures-with-roxy-bowie-u2-and-talking-heads.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}