{"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":"The Clash, the Cramps and Penny Kiley’s teenage punk diaries","slug":"the-clash-the-cramps-and-penny-kiley-s-teenage-punk-diaries","published_at":"2026-05-01T22:14:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240/the-clash-the-cramps-and-penny-kiley-s-teenage-punk-diaries","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/69f525b28dd960ac612c3943/media.mp3","summary":"Penny Kiley moved to Liverpool in 1976, ran into punk rock and “became the person I’d never been allowed to be”, as vividly remembered in her memoir, Atypical Girl. It’s a moment of liberation mapped out by records, nights at Eric’s and the big personalities in the city’s Second Coming, the beat she later covered for Melody Maker. She looks back here at some unconquerable moments, among them …   … the impact of Marc Bolan and David Cassidy - and later Patti Smith, Siouxsie, Pauline Murray and Poly Styrene   … punk’s “bad taste aesthetic” and the clothes she wore   … boomtown Liverpool in the late ‘70s – “everyone had a film script or a demo tape”   … how Boy George stole Pete Burns’ act   … the Clash, Talking Heads and the Ramones at Eric’s   … why her book is “like an historical novel about the way journalism changed”    … first reviews, front covers and life as Melody Maker’s Liverpool correspondent, “which could be awkward with friends in bands”   … Orange Juice and the ground-breaking NME C81 tape   … and the adjustment to the ‘80s – “the Royal Wedding, Live Aid, Duran Duran, yuppies, a decade where I didn’t feel I fitted in”   Order a copy of Atypical Girl here: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/atypical-girl/   https://www.waterstones.com/book/atypical-girl/penny-kiley/9781846976919 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":"Penny Kiley moved to Liverpool in 1976, ran into punk rock and “became the person I’d never been allowed to be”, as vividly remembered in her memoir, Atyp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1713,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-4162240/episodes/the-clash-the-cramps-and-penny-kiley-s-teenage-punk-diaries/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/the-clash-the-cramps-and-penny-kiley-s-teenage-punk-diaries.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}