"You Never Give Me Your Money" is our current favourite book about the Beatles. It starts with the death of Brian Epstein and plots the complicated, mind-boggling, often heart-breaking story of how the four young men who shook the world turned into four sadder middle-aged men who had to deal with the aftermath.

It's written by Peter Doggett who joined us in the pod to talk about: what the Beatles wanted after the Beatles, why they could never get it, how they paid the ultimate price for not reading the small print in the contract, how Yoko Ono made sure she was there at every Beatles recording session, how many barrister's children they put through university and how come they had so little money while being so famous.

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Tony Wadsworth was once in a group called Black Cat Bone. Realising he was unlikely to make it as a rock star he entered the record business, eventually rising to be the the CEO of EMI Recorded Music and then the Chairman of the BPI. He's also a Word reader and avid podcast listener.

In this podcast he goes back over his career at EMI, from the days when older employees still recalled visits from "Mr Lennon" through the reformation of the Parlophone label and the high noon of Britpop to 360° deals with Robbie Williams up to the uncertain future faced by traditional record labels today. Along with Eamonn Forde he's written a report for a think tank on what record labels need to do to justify themselves in the 21st century. If you think the music business is run by anonymous "suits" who don't like music and don't give any serious thought to the future, you need to hear this.

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In the new issue of the magazine Mark Hodkinson's feature Bargain Bin Dreams starts with a bunch of old singles sitting unnoticed in the corner of a shop in Huddersfield. Reasoning that each one must at some time have represented the sum of somebody's hopes and dreams he decided to see if could track down the people who made them. He tells David Hepworth where his quest led him in this special Word shortcast.

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Suede's Brett Anderson clambers into the pod with Andrew Harrison and Eamonn Forde to discuss the band's successful return, how rehearsals can be difficult when your drummer lives in Thailand, why locking a 17-year-old guitarist in a room until he comes up with a song is a good idea, and the truth about the small role played by Ricky Gervais.

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Danny Baker returns to the pod – with David Hepworth and Mark Ellen – having just got “the green light” after months of particularly unsavoury hospitalisation. Discover how he celebrated this news, marvel at his rant against the "pinheads, nitwits and soulless creeps" at the BBC, delight as he flies the flag for neglected faux-thespian Nigel Planer, and remembers John Mayall’s tight-fitting loin-cloth and his almost-encounter with Bob Dylan (and retells the Led Zeppelin story). And feel ever so slightly moved when he says it was reading and posting on the Word site that got him through the worst of times. Unmissable stuff.

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Your three castaways adrift in the Word pod this week, each "rocking" a courageous new haircut - are Mark Ellen, Kate Mossman and Fraser Lewry. Time passes in a convivial blur as they discuss a night out at Desert Island Discs, the luxury items they'd choose, the construction of Kate's monumental hangover, unsung Cult Heroes, interviews that went wrong, Fraser's secret life in an improv band, Kate's maximum security Rest Home Of Rock, why everyone should love Bob Seger, and Qs from The Massive about 100 issues of Word.

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The Word Podcast App app gives you on-demand access to all episodes of the Word Podcast, going back to April 2006. In other words, you can stream the full archive, approximately 141 hours of it, direct to your iPhone or iTouch. It also includes access to the first dozen episodes, recorded before the podcast went as-near-to-weekly as we can manage, and unavailable elsewhere.

What's in it for me?
We've just told you: access to the full podcast archive while you're mobile, and those rare early episodes. Want more? OK. App purchasers will have access to each new podcast the day before it's made available elsewhere, and we'll send you a push notification to let you know the moment it's online. We're almost certain that this will make you feel special.

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That's not all. The app also includes quick links to the latest Word Magazine blog posts and homepage news stories, so you can be kept up to date with any goings-on at Planet Word.

How much is it?
It's a one-off payment of just £3.99. That's little more than the price of an average London pint, but instead of buying something that'll be gone in half an hour, you're choosing permanent access to the best part of 10,000 minutes of prime podcast audio.

I hate Apple. Where's the Android version?
Woah, there. We're just putting our toes in the water - one step at a time, and all of that. We know that Apple devices access this website much more than Android ones, so that's where we're starting. Of course, if the app proves to be popular we may well do other versions.

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There was a time when it seemed rather strange to be marking the 40th birthdays of rock stars. As Bob Dylan's celebrates his 70th today it seems only decent to dedicate a podcast to him, his enduring fascination and his work. In this we're joined by Andy Gill, our resident Dylan scholar, author of Bob Dylan: Stories Behind The Songs and other learned works.

The panel (right) discusses: the location of the tape machine during the sessions for Blonde On Blonde, their favourite New Bob Dylans, when and where they first heard Bob Dylan, Dylan as a fashion leader, teaching aid and heart throb, the Bob Dylan record most likely to persuade a sceptic, the likelihood of your seeing a decent live Dylan show and just what he should do next that he hasn't done already.

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The magnificent Van Dyke Parks enters the pod to deliver wry and extremely fond and funny memories of working with Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Randy Newman, Brian Wilson, Joanna Newsom and his brief membership of Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention. And reveals details of the devastating security leak that allowed The Beatles into the Beach Boys’ studio when their doomed masterpiece Smile was still under construction. He plays London's Union Chapel on Monday.

Also: "Magic" Alex Gold reveals his complex sleeping arrangements and introduces some highlights from the Now Hear This CD accompanying issue 100 of The Word (out today), while Mark Ellen and Kate Mossman pick some favourite moments from within its excitingly centennial pages.

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In 1985 Neil Tennant left his job at Smash Hits to try his hand with Pet Shop Boys. Finally he's come crawling back to take part in the Word podcast where he reminisces about the days when he was "Doctor Bitz", talks about the most ridiculous things the Pet Shop Boys have been asked to do, discloses why they're going on tour with Take That, reveals the name of the best song ever written and answers some of your questions. The new Pet Shop Boys album of ballet music, "The Most Incredible Thing", is out now.

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We're still talking about the delicate politics of people who turn up on stage to "jam", moving on to look at the single week in August 1978 when Mark Ellen saw twenty-four groups and dutifully wrote about them all, wondering why so many songwriters are unwilling to explain where they got the idea for a song from and answering your questions.

Plus we've also got a guest appearance from Delta Maid (right) who talks to Mark Ellen and Kate Mossman about how you can get the blues in Liverpool and plays a song from her first album "Outside Looking In". Her song "Running On Empty" is featured on the CD that comes free with the current issue of the magazine. She's on tour through late April into May. Dates are here.

In addition we've been visited this week by Daniel Tashian (pictured top, with your host), the leader of The Silver Seas from Nashville, Tennessee, described by Danny Baker this week as "the best band in the world." Daniel's been in town to co-write some songs and play one small gig. He found time to pop into the Pod, play a couple of songs and talk about what it's like to be a member of a band who demand "a very high thread count".

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Joining Mark Ellen and Fraser Lewry in the pod this week is Nick Lowe, who leads us on a story-laden stroll through Kippington Lodge, Brinsley Schwarz and Little Village, remembers meeting Keith Moon, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson and recalls – in agonising detail – the moment the fresh-out-of-jail Keith Richards joined Rockpile at New York’s Bottom Line. Includes “World Premiere” performance of a new Nick Lowe tune!

Also: "Magic" Alex Gold chips in to pick some favourite moments from this month's Now Hear This CD, which you'll find on the cover of the new issue of The Word, out this week.

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Andrew Harrison is joined in the pod by Janice Long and Jude Rogers, where they talk about the BBC's renewal of interest in Top Of The Pops, discover why David Bowie really was different, learn that Janice spent 1976 in a Dutch tent, wonder at that statue of Michael Jackson, and marvel at Jude's new website celebrating the t-shirts of pop.

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Alongside the dozens of music artists appearing at Latitude this year, the festival runs a varied arts programme across the site for those moments when the noise becomes too much and other forms of culture demand attention. Here's the initial line-up - more announcements will follow.

Comedy at Latitude
Alan Carr, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Angelos Epithemiou, David O’Doherty, Mark Watson, David Schneider and Friends, Phil Nichol, Charlie Baker, Chris Ramsey, Frisky & Mannish, Jonny Sweet, Popcorn Comedy, Cardinal Burns, Colin Hoult, Sara Pascoe, Shirley and Shirley, Tiffany Stevenson, The Unexpected Items, The Feral Pigeons, Max and Ivan

Theatre at Latitude
The Gate, Trigger and NTS, Shlomo, The Pleasance, Theatre503, Tim Crouch

Literary Arena
John Burnside, Esther Freud, Andrew Smith, Danny Dorling, Kim Newman, Louise Wener (right), Stuart Maconie, Simone Felice, Bryan Talbot, William Goldsmith, Julian Hanshaw, Nick Hayes, Josie Curran

Poetry Arena
Dizraeli and The Small Gods, John Burnside, Tim Turnbull, Rachel Pantechnicon, The Captain’s Tower, Chris Redmond, Hannah Silva, Elvis McGonagall, Salena Godden, Nathan Penlington, Michelle Madsen, Adam O’Riordan, Sam Riviere, Hannah Walker, John Berkavitch, John Osborne,
Simon Mole, Brigitte Aphrodite, Sabrina Mahfouz, Siddhartha Bose, Intensi T & Soldier-A

Film & Music Arena
Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir

Modern Toss Activity Centre
Dance East, Disco Shed, Jenny Edbrooke

With this year's Latitude festival a mere 108 days away, we're delighted to be able to confirm who'll be headlining the Word Arena this year.

It's already been announced that Foals will be heading the bill on Saturday night, but we can exclusively reveal that Friday's pinnacle will be topped by Bombay Bicycle Club (right, top), whose last album Flaws received high praise from The Word's very own Kate Mossman back in issue 89.

Meanwhile, the flag on Sunday's summit will be firmly planted by the brilliant Eels (right, bottom), who really should be near the top of everyone's list of bands to see.

Tickets are available here.