Word Podcast 361 - & when did YOU last listen to Apple Jam?November 30, 2020In which we look at pop conspiracy theories (eg Britney Spears), the Christmas songs that work for 2020, the 36 different versions of the new...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 360 - George Clooney's $14m hand-out: the MovieNovember 24, 2020In which we fantasise about what happened after Clooney gave 14 friends $1m in cash, note the sale of Dylan's private letters, miss the great...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 359 - for the love of Bo DiddleyNovember 18, 2020Acts that wrote songs about themselves (Animals, Monkees, Manfreds, Devo, NWA, Ants etc), Lloyd Cole does handwritten lyrics to order, the we...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 358 - best track on the Beatles' #1 revealed!November 10, 2020On the menu this week - the genius of the late Geoffrey Palmer in the Kipper And The Corpse and Reginald Perrin ('rum cove, Johnny Woman' etc...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 357 - Andy Neill on Ready, Steady, Go!November 7, 2020In which the author of 'Ready Steady Go!: the Weekend Starts Here' talks about the show that revolutionised pop TV - the people who made it, ...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 356 - when Sean Connery met Carly SimonNovember 2, 2020In which we tell the real story of Stardust (the new Bowie biopic), lampoon Kanye West's Kardashian hologram, brace ourselves for the arrival...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 355 - it was 40 years ago today ...October 28, 2020In which we salute Jerry Jeff 'Mr Bojangles' Walker and Spencer Davis (at the ABC in Wakefield!), comedians with catchphrase singles, the mar...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 354 - Rob HalfordOctober 24, 2020Rob Halford - still proudly "a big daft kid" - remembers old music hall acts at the Wolverhampton Grand, wearing polyester suits and kipper t...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 353 - can you be too handsome for rock & roll?October 20, 2020In which we remember Peter Frampton and the second golden age of the Scream Idols (and his hard-nosed manager Dee Anthony), are weirdly gripp...Listen/Show notes
Word Podcast 352 - our favourite '80s albumsOctober 11, 2020In which we salute National Album Day by digging out some much loved '80s LPs, the Telegraph’s Neil McCormick tells us about the tyranny crit...Listen/Show notes