Kev Baker Dies

 

I'm very sorry to report that my good friend, comrade and space brother Kev Baker has died. Kev was a dedicated radio broadcaster who produced a huge amount of material. Barely a night went past without one of his shows going out live. He had a passionate interest in the paranormal, UFOlogy, cryptozoology and cover-ups, what he called "serious woo". He came from Inverness in Scotland, right next to Loch Ness and he took the idea of the monster very seriously. See here for his page on Truth Frequency Radio: https://tfrlive.com/kevbaker/. He later moved to Glasgow where he lived with his family. He first invited me onto his show as a guest seven years ago and very soon I became a regular fixture on the Kev Baker Show. All in all we produced seventy-eight programmes together. I very much enjoyed being on the air with Kev and always looked forward to every third Tuesday of the month when I was on. This is the last show we did: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/12/ben-emlyn-jones-on-kev-baker-show-77.html. In fact he had already booked me to be on his show again on the eighteenth of this month, which will now sadly not happen. Usually the day before each show I used to send him a list of topics to give him ideas and sometimes he would add some himself. I'm pleased to say I once had the honour of returning the favour, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2018/07/programme-291-podcast-kev-baker.html. I also met Kev once, at the 2016 Scottish UFO and Paranormal Conference in Glasgow, see https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2016/06/scottish-ufo-and-paranormal-conference.html. Losing Kev has hit me very badly. I'm still in shock and I will miss him very much. His passing is the latest in what feels like a run of bereavements, see background links below. My heart goes out to his wife, children and the rest of his family. As Kev would say, see ya, Bro. Here is a moving tribute by another of Kev's colleagues, Revd. Bill Bean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYfTfOql9Q. Many of Kev's guests and listeners, who he called "wookies", were in the live chat.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2021/03/programme-411-podcast-ian-r-crane-in.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2021/09/programme-432-podcast-gareth-davies-in.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2021/10/programme-437-podcast-shirley-bolstok.html.