Something Borrowed Podcast With Harry Baker

About Something Borrowed Podcast With Harry Baker

A live performance podcast hosted by World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker featuring special guests from the worlds of poetry, comedy and music.

Publisher

Harry Baker

Category

arts · comedy · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Mar 2020

Latest episode

21 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Aug 2026

   S5E7: Michael Mullen - What Was Left but Poetry?

   Hello friends! Welcome back to Something Borrowed on the road, this time recorded at the wonderful StAnza festival up in St Andrews in March this year. It was a joy to sit down with the one and only Michale Mullen and discuss poetry origin stories, how to put a performance poem on the page and do it justice, authenticity vs commercial viability, writing and performing in Scots, and a frankly cracking Something Blue to bring it all home. We talk about Michael's Forward-Prize-nominated ne...

2. 

   23 Jun 2026

   S5E6: Georgie Jones - First I Wanted To Be a Clown

   Hello Friends - we're back with another banger! The people's champ Georgie Jones has come back by popular demand (from myself and someone who wrote it in chalk on the seafront) and it was WORTH IT. Combining stunning poems with great chat and an appropriate level for respect for the craft of getting on and off a stool, we talk about having babies (me) and not having babies (Georgie), new books (both!), top google searches, respective Roman empires and a Hugh Grant fact that I refuse to check ...

3. 

   20 May 2026

   S5E5: Rachel Long - Staying Curious

   We're back with another banger - Rachel Long was the season finale to our first series of the podcast back when everything was online, so it was a joy to have her in person as a new Margate Local! Recorded in October last year and released just in time for Rachel's new book, Sparrow on a Rooftop, coming out in June, it was amazing to hear Rachel's insight as an editor, her stunning work as a writer, and her warmth and generosity in everything in-between. Featuring poems about swimming, ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

357,938

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

12

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

97

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