Ben Baker
@benbaker.bsky.social
Writer. Podcaster. ALFsplainer.
And there's a chance that things'll get weird.
Yeah, that's a possibility.
Help me by buying some daft stuff here: https://ko-fi.com/benbakerbooks
And there's a chance that things'll get weird.
Yeah, that's a possibility.
Help me by buying some daft stuff here: https://ko-fi.com/benbakerbooks
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Ben Baker
@benbaker.bsky.social
· Sep 1
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Middle-Aged Teenage Angst: The Zine is now available to buy in print or as a PDF. 52 pages of new writing by me on forgotten TV, old mags, radio, wrestling, growing up, badges and, of course, music.
Why should teenage kicks be only for teenagers?
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Why should teenage kicks be only for teenagers?
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With some help from @hawaiiworms.bsky.social and hindrance from @benbaker.bsky.social we look back at our tour and review some high-end restaurants in the new edition of our podcast, the Spray Synthpop Masterclass.
We also play a brand new song if you listen in...
open.spotify.com/episode/4zOm...
We also play a brand new song if you listen in...
open.spotify.com/episode/4zOm...
Episode 6 - How Do We Tell Erasure Fans About Spray?
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November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
With some help from @hawaiiworms.bsky.social and hindrance from @benbaker.bsky.social we look back at our tour and review some high-end restaurants in the new edition of our podcast, the Spray Synthpop Masterclass.
We also play a brand new song if you listen in...
open.spotify.com/episode/4zOm...
We also play a brand new song if you listen in...
open.spotify.com/episode/4zOm...
Fancy one up the bracket? Well, you're in the right place if you tune into Noisebox right now for "Middle-Aged Teenage Angst". (Check with a parenthesis first if its ok.) @noiseboxradio.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Fancy one up the bracket? Well, you're in the right place if you tune into Noisebox right now for "Middle-Aged Teenage Angst". (Check with a parenthesis first if its ok.) @noiseboxradio.com
Starting at 8pm. It will finish at 9pm. It would be great if you listened.
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We're going up the brackets tomorrow at 8pm with music from The Wedding Present, Elliott Smith, The Soft Boys, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, The Supernaturals, Gorkys, The B-52s, Sponge, MCR and lots more (plus me inbetween.) noiseboxradio.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Starting at 8pm. It will finish at 9pm. It would be great if you listened.
(Dont retweet after 9pm, votes will not count and you will still be charged.)
(Dont retweet after 9pm, votes will not count and you will still be charged.)
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This silliness is one of our favourite bits on this week's ALFsplaining.
Listen in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
Listen in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This silliness is one of our favourite bits on this week's ALFsplaining.
Listen in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
Listen in at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
I refuse to listen to this until 00:01 on December 1st otherwise Baby Jesus will kick my back doors in. You should listen to it though, its dead good.
Yes alright it's still November, but if you don't listen to this chat with @benbaker.bsky.social you'll be missing out on some of the funniest Looks Unfamiliar moments including Paul Shane: Infinity War and a story about seeing Jim Bowen doing Bullseye live...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...
Looks Unfamiliar: Ben Baker – Historical Sitcom Man
Looks Unfamiliar with Ben Baker talking to Tim Worthington about Mr T’s Christmas Dream, There’s Something Wrong In Paradise, God In The House, To Hell With The Devil, Highway, The Flin…
timworthington.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I refuse to listen to this until 00:01 on December 1st otherwise Baby Jesus will kick my back doors in. You should listen to it though, its dead good.
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Do you remember Gordon T Gopher's classic catchphrase? Second only to "check their ID first, Phil"....
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Do you remember Gordon T Gopher's classic catchphrase? Second only to "check their ID first, Phil"....
Do you remember Gordon T Gopher's classic catchphrase? Second only to "check their ID first, Phil"....
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Do you remember Gordon T Gopher's classic catchphrase? Second only to "check their ID first, Phil"....
We're going up the brackets tomorrow at 8pm with music from The Wedding Present, Elliott Smith, The Soft Boys, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, The Supernaturals, Gorkys, The B-52s, Sponge, MCR and lots more (plus me inbetween.) noiseboxradio.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We're going up the brackets tomorrow at 8pm with music from The Wedding Present, Elliott Smith, The Soft Boys, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, The Supernaturals, Gorkys, The B-52s, Sponge, MCR and lots more (plus me inbetween.) noiseboxradio.com
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🚨 NEW! NEU! NOUVEAU! 🚨
It's Thanksgiving, and we're completing the epic two-parter Turkey In The Straw.
🦃 ALF reads the papers!
🦃 ALF shows Flakey Pete his photo album!
🦃 Das Cornucopia is "performed"!
🦃 ALF, the Tanners and Flakey Pete praise Christ!
It's all happening at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
It's Thanksgiving, and we're completing the epic two-parter Turkey In The Straw.
🦃 ALF reads the papers!
🦃 ALF shows Flakey Pete his photo album!
🦃 Das Cornucopia is "performed"!
🦃 ALF, the Tanners and Flakey Pete praise Christ!
It's all happening at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🚨 NEW! NEU! NOUVEAU! 🚨
It's Thanksgiving, and we're completing the epic two-parter Turkey In The Straw.
🦃 ALF reads the papers!
🦃 ALF shows Flakey Pete his photo album!
🦃 Das Cornucopia is "performed"!
🦃 ALF, the Tanners and Flakey Pete praise Christ!
It's all happening at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
It's Thanksgiving, and we're completing the epic two-parter Turkey In The Straw.
🦃 ALF reads the papers!
🦃 ALF shows Flakey Pete his photo album!
🦃 Das Cornucopia is "performed"!
🦃 ALF, the Tanners and Flakey Pete praise Christ!
It's all happening at linktr.ee/ALFsplaining
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything Episode 34: As a big fan of the album Pearlies by Emma Anderson (@emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social), I was delighted that Emma joined me on my music textcast to discuss it, her career in Lush and Sing-Sing, and some favourite recordings. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...
FLA 34: Emma Anderson (23/11/2025)
As a first-year university student, one of the first songs of the 1990s I cherished was ‘De-Luxe’ by the London-based quartet Lush, who were signed to the independent record label 4AD. I was in the…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Episode 34: As a big fan of the album Pearlies by Emma Anderson (@emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social), I was delighted that Emma joined me on my music textcast to discuss it, her career in Lush and Sing-Sing, and some favourite recordings. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...
Bring back theft as entertainment.
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Bring back theft as entertainment.
FFS Live tonight is songs featuring comedians. Listen in to see how this can apparently be misinterpreted in hilariously different ways. 9pm. @noiseboxradio.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
FFS Live tonight is songs featuring comedians. Listen in to see how this can apparently be misinterpreted in hilariously different ways. 9pm. @noiseboxradio.com
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Its 50 years since Billy Connolly topped the UK charts with “D.I.V.O.R.C.E.” so for FFS Live we’re looking for your requests for songs by or featuring comedy people in any context. Use the form at noiseboxradio.com/ff... to submit your requests by 7.30pm!
Free-For-All Saturday
Anything goes on Saturday nights in Noisebox Radio’s live request show! Every Saturday afternoon you can come to this page to see what the theme is for this week’s show, and submit your…
noiseboxradio.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Its 50 years since Billy Connolly topped the UK charts with “D.I.V.O.R.C.E.” so for FFS Live we’re looking for your requests for songs by or featuring comedy people in any context. Use the form at noiseboxradio.com/ff... to submit your requests by 7.30pm!
"How do you want your hair, luv?"
"Comedy SS-Sturmbannführer please, ta"
"Comedy SS-Sturmbannführer please, ta"
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"How do you want your hair, luv?"
"Comedy SS-Sturmbannführer please, ta"
"Comedy SS-Sturmbannführer please, ta"
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Let me and @benbaker.bsky.social know what you think is going on here.
🚨NEW!🚨
Over on the ALFsplaining Patreon we're looking into the short-lived UK version of the ALF comic and Ben gets a chance to do his Welsh accent.
But the "censoring" on the letters page has us intrigued. Help us out gang, what do *you* think has been obscured here?
Patreon.com/ALFsplainingExtra
Over on the ALFsplaining Patreon we're looking into the short-lived UK version of the ALF comic and Ben gets a chance to do his Welsh accent.
But the "censoring" on the letters page has us intrigued. Help us out gang, what do *you* think has been obscured here?
Patreon.com/ALFsplainingExtra
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Let me and @benbaker.bsky.social know what you think is going on here.
You know what, George. I think I *will* have a wank later. Cheers mate.
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You know what, George. I think I *will* have a wank later. Cheers mate.
I drew a hill once. Didnt bang on about it, like.
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I drew a hill once. Didnt bang on about it, like.
Cliff fucked my mate without consent once. Christmas '99 it was. And Westlife watched.
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Cliff fucked my mate without consent once. Christmas '99 it was. And Westlife watched.
Fun fact but Billie Piper (full name Billillillie Piper) is the new actor playing 'Primeval' in the next series. Or is it Merlin?
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Fun fact but Billie Piper (full name Billillillie Piper) is the new actor playing 'Primeval' in the next series. Or is it Merlin?
News was much more interesting in 1956. Unless you were a wife, a cow or a midget anyway....
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
News was much more interesting in 1956. Unless you were a wife, a cow or a midget anyway....
That 12 seconds of "Mansize Rooster" on Popmaster just now is the most exciting thing commercial radio has ever played since Chris Tarrant died.
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
That 12 seconds of "Mansize Rooster" on Popmaster just now is the most exciting thing commercial radio has ever played since Chris Tarrant died.
Middle-Aged Teenage Angst is an indie show on the radio that you can listen to with your ears. I quite like it. 11am this morning on @noiseboxradio.com or their Mixcloud any time.
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Middle-Aged Teenage Angst is an indie show on the radio that you can listen to with your ears. I quite like it. 11am this morning on @noiseboxradio.com or their Mixcloud any time.
Just rewatched "Get Calf" which was thirty years old this week. Still a fantastic half hour I can quote endlessly and only slightly less good than the video diaries which I find close to perfect. Now to weep for my youth...
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c49qr
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c49qr
Coogan's Run S01E01 - Get Calf
Dailymotion video by Arthur Twosheds Jackson
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November 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just rewatched "Get Calf" which was thirty years old this week. Still a fantastic half hour I can quote endlessly and only slightly less good than the video diaries which I find close to perfect. Now to weep for my youth...
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c49qr
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c49qr
Quality work as ever, robots that work on The Sun.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Quality work as ever, robots that work on The Sun.
As a teenager, The Stone Roses meant the world to me although I managed to get into them just after they broke up. Like Andy Rourke, Mani was the soul of his group and he even made Primal Scream - a band I once hated - worth listening to. Rotten news. RIP.
two young men are sitting next to each other and one of them is asking the other if he is really
ALT: two young men are sitting next to each other and one of them is asking the other if he is really
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November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
As a teenager, The Stone Roses meant the world to me although I managed to get into them just after they broke up. Like Andy Rourke, Mani was the soul of his group and he even made Primal Scream - a band I once hated - worth listening to. Rotten news. RIP.