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Billy Bragg – 40 years, 2,700 gigs and what he learnt from Taylor Swift	Word In Your Ear	34:38
Mark Kermode tells us stories about music in movies	Word In Your Ear	40:41
How many bands can you name every member of?	Word In Your Ear	48:30
The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21	Word In Your Ear	36:59
Led Zeppelin’s fight for attention and how they fudged their backstory	Word In Your Ear	39:42
Stones, Blondie, Iggy and songs that make a movie & why we loved Diane Keaton	Word In Your Ear	54:06
Ringo and why the Beatles wouldn’t have worked without him	Word In Your Ear	37:52
Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with poshness	Word In Your Ear	52:50
Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms	Word In Your Ear	32:18
The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie	Word In Your Ear	39:07
The three London kids who invented rock style	Word In Your Ear	34:42
Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.	Word In Your Ear	56:40
Thea Gilmore on Joan Baez, Jake Thackray and Dave Pegg’s dog starting her career	Word In Your Ear	26:17
How pioneer tape-rat Roger Armstrong found vintage America a whole new audience	Word In Your Ear	48:40
Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-looking rock stars	Word In Your Ear	47:59
John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire	Word In Your Ear	39:25
Alex's star-studded week in Hollywood	Word In Your Ear	44:44
Peter Hammill on Bowie, other superfans & 47 albums of ‘self-sabotage and chaos’.	Word In Your Ear	36:59
Talking Heads, where they came from and where they went - with Jonathan Gould	Word In Your Ear	45:09
Freddie Mercury has a daughter’ – and Lesley-Ann Jones can prove it	Word In Your Ear	31:44
Oasis in 2026, the Troggs and what Morrissey’s only gone and done now!	Word In Your Ear	52:37
‘Hey Joe’, its miracle birth & why violent songs are like True Crime - by Jason Schneider	Word In Your Ear	36:53
Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span drove Rev Gary Davis round Britain in a Triumph Herald	Word In Your Ear	37:17
Why reviews lost their sting - and what matters more, the song or the record?	Word In Your Ear	41:17
Debsey Wykes of Dolly Mixture wants you to read her teenage diary	Word In Your Ear	37:33
Singers’ vast egos explained and what’s the real definition of ‘a fan’?	Word In Your Ear	36:35
Neil Hannon - the Divine Comedy, the Father Ted saga & nights at the Indie Disco	Word In Your Ear	29:11
Tanita Tikaram - from ‘girl with guitar in bedroom’ to Hammersmith Odeon in six months	Word In Your Ear	33:31
Bob Mould remembers Hüsker Dü, Sugar & that guy with the hipster moustache	Word In Your Ear	33:03
Comedy records, TV gold & have Oasis and Coldplay hoovered up all the cash?	Word In Your Ear	61:54
Brian Protheroe on the eternal life of his 1974 hit “Pinball”	Word In Your Ear	33:13
Terry Reid, the man who really invented Led Zeppelin, & guitar fetishism	Word In Your Ear	46:18
Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen	Word In Your Ear	42:45
Jah Wobble - 40 hilarious unedited minutes interrupted by a pest control officer	Word In Your Ear	39:58
Elvis, the Colonel & how unseen letters changed Peter Guralnick’s view of their partnership	Word In Your Ear	52:47
Are the Nineties the new Classic Rock? And whatever happened to comedy records?	Word In Your Ear	36:36
The Wedding Present turns 40, memories of John Peel & ‘the only time I ever pogo-ed’	Word In Your Ear	33:07
Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, Hollywood and writing songs for frogs and unicorns	Word In Your Ear	47:27
Del Amitri’s Justin Currie has faced every tough crowd imaginable. Lessons were learn	Word In Your Ear	45:54
Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws, the lost world of mix tapes & the movies’ most chilling moment	Word In Your Ear	57:48

Billy Bragg – 40 years, 2,700 gigs and what he learnt from Taylor Swift

Word In Your Ear

34:38

Mark Kermode tells us stories about music in movies

Word In Your Ear

40:41

How many bands can you name every member of?

Word In Your Ear

48:30

The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21

Word In Your Ear

36:59