{"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":"Is Indie the new Good Old Days? And why are there no British country stars?","slug":"is-indie-the-new-good-old-days-and-why-are-there-no-british-country-stars","published_at":"2026-07-13T13:21:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/is-indie-the-new-good-old-days-and-why-are-there-no-british-country-stars","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/6a54e669420a266ecbca028e/media.mp3","summary":"As this week’s news hurtles over the net, we sort the aces from the double-faults. The final score …    … Madonna, Shakira, Chris Martin and World Cup 11-minute half-time overload!   … how many Stones albums were “the best since Exile On Main Street”?   … Kevin Rowland’s heart-breaking songs about Life’s Third Act   … 10 good reasons to miss the Nineties   … Country & Western is about travelling through the vast geography of America. “Go 200 miles in Britain and you fall off the edge”   … Florian Pilkington-Miksa, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond: rock’s real (or invented?) double-barrelled names   … how “travel and never arrive” is the new entertainment experience   … plus Sly Stone’s Babies Makin’ Babies, the comforting cry of “Gambo’s in the building!” and birthday guest Patrick Butler. 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":"As this week’s news hurtles over the net, we sort the aces from the double-faults. The final score … … Madonna, Shakira, Chris Martin and Wor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3145,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/is-indie-the-new-good-old-days-and-why-are-there-no-british-country-stars/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/is-indie-the-new-good-old-days-and-why-are-there-no-british-country-stars.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}