Word In Your Ear

Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall on listening to Prog Rock in your living room, the late Mitch Mitchell, the people who have strangely not been given a Brit and boiling an egg on the San Andreas fault.

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David Hepworth, Rob Fitzpatrick and Matt Hall on: what's going to happen at Obama's inauguration, what it's like to "jam" with Earl Slick and how to get from 1 to 106 in band names.

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Andrew Collins, Mark Ellen and Matt Hall on Manuelgate, the search for a band whose name contains every number between 1 and 100 and more.

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David Hepworth and Matt Hall with Jonathon Green, the editor of the Chambers Dictionary of Slang. If you think you might be in any way offended by the ripeness of the language used in this podcast, please don't listen.

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Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall on: why Ringo won't sign, how to pass yourself off in the Mob, premiership footballers who look like characters in "The Wire", members of bands who did nothing and Graeme Thomson's book about death in popular song.

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Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall read your mail re: quadraphonic, eight-track, Hollywood stars using cheap hair colour and the dumbest things in entertainment. Plus: how Peter Mandelson got out of listening to one of Mark Ellen's stories.

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David Hepworth, Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall on: sons and daughters of Grantham, the madness of the eight-track tape, great local radio disasters, the joy of hearing unmixed session recordings and the morality of forcing a senior citizen to listen to Ten Years After.

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Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall on Rick Wright and other musicians who didn't get their fair share of credit, a brilliant TV film about pre-adolescent heavy metal and Mark's early adventures as a pop video extra.

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David Hepworth, Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall attempt to define music, ponder the rights and wrongs of pop music at funerals and wonder whether all fans are nutcases.

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Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall report on their holidays, remember the Olympics and wonder about the connections between the Beatles and the Space Race.

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