{"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":"Songs about sweltering heat, Willie Nelson’s braids and is vinyl now ‘luxury goods’?","slug":"songs-about-sweltering-heat-willie-nelson-s-braids-and-is-vinyl-now-luxury-goods","published_at":"2026-06-01T15:34:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240/songs-about-sweltering-heat-willie-nelson-s-braids-and-is-vinyl-now-luxury-goods","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/6a1da6a05e7c8b23782c9975/media.mp3","summary":"Chasing the shade and slapping the Sunscreen on this week’s overheated news, we pour a tinkling drink and reflect upon the following …   … British people in hot weath-ah!   … when rock stars you haven’t seen for 50 years pop up on Zoom   … Lennon’s tooth? Timberlake’s toast? Mooney’s school report? Weird things sold at auction   … Paul Horn playing in the Taj Mahal, Sonny Rollins on the Williamsburg Bridge, U2 in Slane Castle   … are new vinyl albums now ‘luxury goods’ and old ones ‘antiques’?   … where you can hear the Abbey Road building on the Dark Side of the Moon   … the cinematic records Daniel Lanois made in an abandoned movie theatre near Santa Barbara   … Summer In The City: the Lovin’ Spoonful’s road-drill and Regina Spektor’s cleavage   … Cat-calming music! Gym motivation! Stress-busting songs for Spurs fans on Judgement Day! The age of the prescriptive playlist   … the new dawn of instrumental music, “a public utility like turning on a tap”   … and the single Sinatra recorded for Maureen Starkey (only one copy made!). 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":"Chasing the shade and slapping the Sunscreen on this week’s overheated news, we pour a tinkling drink and reflect upon the following … … British pe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2873,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-4162240/episodes/songs-about-sweltering-heat-willie-nelson-s-braids-and-is-vinyl-now-luxury-goods/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/songs-about-sweltering-heat-willie-nelson-s-braids-and-is-vinyl-now-luxury-goods.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}