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The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!	Word In Your Ear	36:27
Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents	Word In Your Ear	49:54
Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan	Word In Your Ear	29:14
Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache	Word In Your Ear	52:19
Dave Pegg, Fairport’s “longest-serving member” (fnarr!) looks back at hippie chaos and old heroes	Word In Your Ear	42:53
Withering reviews of famous albums, Jaws versus Jeeves and the genius of Blondie’s Clem Burke	Word In Your Ear	52:55
Why Sparks’ Russell Mael preferred British acts to the ‘faux honesty’ of Laurel Canyon	Word In Your Ear	24:56
Seven ‘lost’ Springsteen albums, romance in sitcoms and the age of spectacle	Word In Your Ear	38:09
Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’.	Word In Your Ear	39:03
AI’s Word In Your Ear theme tune (!!), the four stages of showbiz & taking kids to concerts	Word In Your Ear	39:22
Hearing 45 year-old records you’d never played & the least likely-looking person to become a rock star	Word In Your Ear	42:06
What Kate Mossman discovered about rock’s elder statesmen	Word In Your Ear	42:56
How John Harris and his son found a life-changing connection through music	Word In Your Ear	51:31
Mike Rutherford looks back at 60 years onstage and the art of cheap rock theatre	Word In Your Ear	26:00
Mike Scott of the Waterboys remembers the shows that inspired him	Word In Your Ear	16:08
The lost world of teenage love songs – and the best pop song ever written!	Word In Your Ear	47:16
Nik Kershaw remembers Live Aid, snoods, fingerless gloves & a sudden male-female audience shift	Word In Your Ear	27:04
Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage	Word In Your Ear	52:24
Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how to make a speech	Word In Your Ear	55:34
Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immediate Family”	Word In Your Ear	24:06
Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie	Word In Your Ear	44:21
The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St	Word In Your Ear	54:01
Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John	Word In Your Ear	26:09
Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler	Word In Your Ear	57:36
Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues	Word In Your Ear	28:32
Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations	Word In Your Ear	55:16
Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”	Word In Your Ear	40:27
Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard	Word In Your Ear	46:29
Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark	Word In Your Ear	45:21
The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey	Word In Your Ear	36:41
So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave	Word In Your Ear	53:40
Did Britain invent the rock band? - plus our new laws about music & Garth Hudson RIP	Word In Your Ear	37:25
Howard Jones has ‘the best job in the world’	Word In Your Ear	20:49
Andy Fairweather Low’s teenage psychedelic stardom	Word In Your Ear	28:03
A 3-part rant about LPs sold as ‘antiques’, TikTok & the shameful AI Michael Parkinson	Word In Your Ear	50:10
The unstoppable Francis Rossi – open the fridge door and he’ll do 30 minutes	Word In Your Ear	33:21
Graham Nash beat the Beatles in a talent contest	Word In Your Ear	13:14
The Dylan biopic, Sam & Dave and why 2025 is the most important year in our lives.	Word In Your Ear	45:48
Johnnie Walker, pop’s golden year and what’s wrecking rock documentaries.	Word In Your Ear	36:50
How Dylan and Leonard Cohen punctured the Summer Of Love plus the birth of blockbuster album	Word In Your Ear	44:51

The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!

Word In Your Ear

36:27

Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents

Word In Your Ear

49:54

Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan

Word In Your Ear

29:14

Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache

Word In Your Ear

52:19