{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-66565","podcast_index_feed_id":66565,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5fe229a1f896715ee8319608","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":"2026-07-24T06:19:52.971578+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565"},"episode":{"title":"At home with Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & John Martyn in the golden year of 1970","slug":"at-home-with-nick-drake-sandy-denny-john-martyn-in-the-golden-year-of-1970","published_at":"2026-03-31T23:18:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/at-home-with-nick-drake-sandy-denny-john-martyn-in-the-golden-year-of-1970","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/69cc5661bfb99db0bc90daf5/media.mp3","summary":"When he was 19, New Yorker Brian Cullman covered the London music scene for Crawdaddy, landing at the birth of folk-rock and the singer-songwriter boom and watching its leading lights from unimaginably close quarters - Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, John Martyn among them. He even played on the same bill as Drake at Les Cousins club, all this recorded in his book ‘How To Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time’. He talks to us here about that golden age and the American stars he met later, stopping off at …   … Ed Sullivan at the shoe-shine: “in six months the Beatles will be lucky to be playing a bowling alley!”   … Nick Drake in the same clothes he wore on the cover of Five Leaves Left   … Sandy Denny: “She knew she was extraordinary but didn’t know if she was any good”   … Jackson Browne, onstage from the age of 12   … being hired by rock encyclopaedist Lillian Roxon, “my fairy godmother”   … Tim Hardin making Bird On A Wire, “so wasted they followed him round the room with a microphone”   ... and “14 hotdogs”? The cavernous appetite of Big Joe Turner.   Order ‘How To Prepare for the Past’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Prepare-Past-Travels-Music/dp/B0FTS8ZPTW   Or here: https://www.zebooks.com/books/how-to-prepare-for-the-past Help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"When he was 19, New Yorker Brian Cullman covered the London music scene for Crawdaddy, landing at the birth of folk-rock and the singer-songwriter boom an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1709,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/at-home-with-nick-drake-sandy-denny-john-martyn-in-the-golden-year-of-1970/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-66565/at-home-with-nick-drake-sandy-denny-john-martyn-in-the-golden-year-of-1970.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}