{"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":"Joan Armatrading, Tom Robinson and the great music meltdown of Summer ‘76","slug":"joan-armatrading-tom-robinson-and-the-great-music-meltdown-of-summer-76","published_at":"2026-07-03T09:48:44+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/joan-armatrading-tom-robinson-and-the-great-music-meltdown-of-summer-76","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565","url":"https://shows.acast.com/word-in-your-ear-2/episodes/word-podcast-933-john-williams","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a47857c04fac73b24a11c44/media.mp3","summary":"The blistering heat of 1976 burnt various things onto the memory – standpipes, strikes, Entebbe, ‘Confessions’ movies, Jeremy Thorpe – but most of all the records that became its soundtrack, some of them revolutionary, others begging for extinction. John L Williams captures the moment in ‘Heatwave: the Summer of 1976, Britain at Boiling Point’ and a paints of picture of a country on the brink of a vast pop-cultural shift. We talk to him here about …   … violence at gigs and football and on Derek & Clive albums   … dumb people pretending to be clever (prog rock) and clever people pretending to be dumb (Ramones)   … the rise of Joan Armatrading in the days before ‘identity’ marketing   … how ‘funny’ t-shirts were the memes of their day   … when Tom Robinson saw the future in Scarborough   … “mainstream culture gave you things to both love and hate”   ... how Rock Follies featured an imaginary Blitz Club where people danced in military uniforms   … Andy Summers (with Kevin Ayers) and Stewart Copeland (Curved Air) on the same bill a year before the Police   … why anyone with a Sensational Alex Harvey Band scarf got a wide berth    … Time Out’s headline: \"It's the Buzz, Cock!\"   … Tom Waits, aged 25, unconvincing hobo-hipster   … and Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmanuelle and the lowest point of the Radio One Roadshow.   Order copies of ‘Heatwave’ here: https://tinyurl.com/2kudc6xr 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":"The blistering heat of 1976 burnt various things onto the memory – standpipes, strikes, Entebbe, ‘Confessions’ movies, Jeremy Thorpe – but most of all the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2378,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/joan-armatrading-tom-robinson-and-the-great-music-meltdown-of-summer-76/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/joan-armatrading-tom-robinson-and-the-great-music-meltdown-of-summer-76.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}