Harry Baker: your poet best friend! (pre-order the new book 'Tender' now / Something Borrowed podcast) #643
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the absolute whirlwind of joy and good vibes, the poet HARRY BAKER!
A meeting which is also a reunificiation, as Pip and Harry go back a good many years in the scene. Admittedly their time has been separated over the years, but that's the beauty of the scheduled recording! An excuse to leap back in. As you'll hear, while Harry has a flag planted in poetry, his world merges perfectly with comedy and humour as well as music, which lends his style to a huge amount of open doors out there for what he does. From the earlier days discovering Hip Hop via a cool teacher, to peppering raps with humour while not laughing at the artform, poems about maths and verging on being typecast as the 'maths poet' (though he does do the only poem with a pi-solo), silence and holding the room, developing technique the hard way by working rooms, Bestival, all the way up to daily poem writing through the first 100 days of a newborn. Yes of course there is so much more than that. But that's where you come in. So enjoy, and discover more about Harry through all links below - you'll love him.
PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting nature
SOMETHING BORROWED podcast (Youtube)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast episode 643. If you can imagine such a thing. |
| 0:10.6 | I think you can. I don't think it's that hard to imagine. But here we are. If you can't imagine it, |
| 0:17.7 | open your eyes and ears, my friend. What am I going on about? |
| 0:21.4 | This is the distraction pieces podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | My guest today is the wonderful Harry Baker. |
| 0:27.8 | I've, I mean, we get into this straight off the bat. |
| 0:30.2 | I've known Harry Baker for years, but I also feel like I hardly know Harry Baker. |
| 0:34.4 | I largely know him through his work, his poetry, his comedy, all sorts of |
| 0:40.2 | crossover. So I was really excited to sit down and chat with Harry ahead of his new book coming |
| 0:46.1 | out, which is called Tender, 100 poems for the first 100 days of life. That'll be explained. |
| 0:51.3 | You don't have to start reading this on the day you're born. |
| 0:55.2 | It'll be explained, but I do recommend pre-ordering it. I'm really excited to read it. It's not out yet, but I'm really excited to read it. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, I know Harry from the spoken word days. I've been to see his shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, which has said, there is this crossover of comedy and poetry |
| 1:12.4 | and music in places, depending on different points in his journey, his career. |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah, I think you're going to enjoy this. |
| 1:20.1 | Speaking of music, we're brought to you as ever by Speech Development Records.com. |
| 1:23.7 | That's where you can get any of my music if you're into that kind of thing. |
| 1:27.3 | If you've tuned in for Harry Baker and you're like, I used to like Pipp in his music and |
| 1:32.4 | spoken word days. |
| 1:33.4 | I remember Harry from the scene. |
| 1:35.5 | Then check out live in places, mine and Dan Lassack's live album exclusively on Ban Camp. |
| 1:41.3 | It's good stuff. |
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