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Don't Lets Chart - Comedy. History. Stupidity.
by Ben and Phil
The podcast that tries to make sense of now via the comfort of lists, weird trivia, arcane history and jokes about bums. If you think Bin Day should be a public holiday, you'll love Don't Lets Chart! Get early access for £3 a month here: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart
Episodes
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Hello, Good Evening and Bollocks (Pilot)
Ben Baker hosts a retrospective look back at one of his biggest loves and influences: Viz, the adult comic founded by teenage cartoonist Chris Donald which has made people laugh, guffaw, chuckle, snort and wheeze with its mixture of comic strips, newspaper spoofs, rude words, bottoms, bollocks…
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NEW PODCAST! Ben Baker's Christmas Box
Welcome to Ben Baker's Christmas Box, a seasonally swanky trip through television's present-wrapped past. In each short episode of my new series I talk to a guest about something that represents the Christmas period to them and today I'm joined by musician, podcaster and composer of my amazing…
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Ketchup and Rings (May 18th)
Do you want to listen to a podcast about rotten Draculas, strange handprints, Pope swapping, TV monkey homing, New Zealand's unusual chart toppers, the art of Star Trek Captain naming and Tom Mix's horse Tony among things? Well, this was indeed the series for you! Sadly this is the final regular...
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Satan Is Everywhere (May 11th)
.trahC steL tnoD fo edosipe wen eht ot emoclew dna olleH...ahem, sorry, we've been listening to those backwards records again as there's moral panic on the horizon and its coming for your children!!! I mean, it's not obviously. But Ben Baker and Phil Catterall will be exploring some of history's...
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An Outbreak Of Quincyism (April 27th)
Hey kids! Do you like facts? Do you like charts? Do you like betraying your country for upwards of £6 and a bottle of Tizer? Then Don't Lets Chart is the podcast for you. Ben Baker and Phil Catterall lead the parade of the past with terrible deals, Beethoven's working titles, the finest in...
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Brasso Police (April 20th)
Welcome to the podcast that tries to charge head first through today via the distraction of yesterday with lists, trivia and thirteen litres of Old Ianson’s Dad Botherer up the park. In today's episode we're taking a look at April 20th throughout the years and learn why Street Fighter The Movie…
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The Most Beautiful Steve (April 13th)
Want to learn some genuinely true facts from this date in time but also like silly people making jokes about Slimer's buttocks, sexy elephants and the Fuse bar throughout? Then "Don't Lets Chart" is your podcast! Its quite the trunk laden episode too with the internet's most burning questions…
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I've Patented A Shoe (April 6th)
Don't Lets Chart is a podcast that looks at the current day in history, shakes it for interesting trivia and then spray paints "BUMS" over the top of it. In this look at the April 6ths of time, Ben Baker and Phil Catterall learn about America's furry millionaire, Tartan Day, Napoleon's more petty...
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Game For A Quiz Is Here!
After the success and feedback on the pilot episode, we've decided to launch Game For A Quiz as its own show with a unique feed (e.g it will not be posted here!) and social media stuff. If you missed the first show, here's a small trailer for what we do. Then please go follow us on the podcast…
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Why Can't I Be You? - Morrissey
Ben Baker has always been fascinated by the world of pop parodies - musical spoofs or pastiches of existing bands, singers and genres - from "Spitting Image" to "Horrible Histories". In this first edition he looks at three and a bit decades of ribbing directed at the Mancunian mouthpiece that is...
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Game For A Quiz: Time
We've all got a favourite game show. Like the BBC point based one hosted by the lad with the ears or its ITV rival in which a chaser chases some contestants in a chase...I forget the title. (Speed 2?) But which is the BEST quiz or game show ever? Well, that's what Ben Baker and Christine Coulson...
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Phil and Ben's Transformers 101
Phil loves big giant fighting space robots. Ben has never seen the appeal. Now, after years of in-fighting and insults, Ben is finally conceding to try and understand his friend's genuine obsession with the whole Transformers franchise. As an outsider he's going to learn about all aspects of the...
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It'll Be Alright On Some Charts
As you all know Ben Baker and Phil Catterall are incredibly professional young men with all their own teeth and they definitely don't make a noise every time they sit down. But what of those rare moments where things went wrong? Or funny but unnecessary tangents were followed? Or sections were...
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A Bearable New Year With Ben and Phil
Happy New Sort Of A Year! Ben and Phil are here with a bit of New Year Cheer which will be as delicious as the injection man coming round with all of your vaccines! There are resolutions, celebrations and confusing traditions for everyone as part of this new year we've been slung into. Plus all…
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The Best of The Quizzes - Vol. 1
The best quizzes from series 1 and 2 of Don't Lets Chart in honour of Ben's second fabulous 39th birthday. No, 2020 doesn't count. Its like Community season four. Enjoy!
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Christmas Chart With The Stars
Between 1958 and 1972, the BBC would run a big programme entitled "Christmas Night with the Stars". In it you could find mini versions of all your favourite shows of the time plus sketches, monologues and other seasonal nonsense. Today, Don't Lets Chart are reviving that tradition with a big…
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 24
Shut up Chris Rea, its podcast time. Thank you to everyone who has downloaded the entire set of these festive fripperies. We had huge fun and we hope you did too. And that is very definitely the end. Yes. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to…
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 23
Was 1973 the most Christmas year ever? And is it still remembered in the 2020 charts? All this plus your best Christmas hit singles ever inside a bumper festive Don't Lets and Chart! ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 22
We all know our classic British traditions, unless we dont, but what of more old fashioned Christmas activities? Phil gots a list and he's only mildly afraid to use it! MEAT WILL BE SHOWN! ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes,...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 21
Right, no more of your lolligagging! Its time for the big shop and the vote for the best Christmas food for mouth is on. Will pigs beat blankets? When was the best Cadbury selection box era? And which is better: "Spuds" or "Just meat"? Slooooooooooo..... ======================== Want to support…
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 20
Animals! Everywhere animals! Turn around, I bet there's one behind you. But which is the best when it comes to Winter conditions and how does this affect our SpeakPipe? If only there was a way of finding out... ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early…
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 19
Hello I am Terry Christian and this is the best festive Word. Only joking. But also not. Find out what any of this means in the latest edition of the podcast described by many as "Oh god, it's still going" and "not Chris Ramsay enough". ======================== Want to support the making of the...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 18
It's a self-indulgent Friday as Phil asks Ben about some of the weirder entries in his new book. Did he mention he's got a book out? Yes. Yes he did. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside hours of bonus material? Visit…
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 17
What is the best Christmas film? Its a discussion for the ages and is almost always a terrible idea. Hence this episode. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside hours of bonus material? Visit our Patreon:...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 16
Gravy. Just gravy. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside hours of bonus material? Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart Ben's new book "I Was Bored On Christmas Day: 90s Christmas Telly from Ant and…
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 15
Perhaps our favourite vote subject to date. Its "Best Christmas TV Special By Or Featuring A Puppet" and boy oh lordy are you in for a treat. Probably. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside hours of bonus material? Visit...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 14
What are the rest of the world getting up to? Lets take a peek in the Christmas diaries of the rich and baffling. A ribbe of biefe for all readers! ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside hours of bonus material? Visit our...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 13
We asked you what the best Christmas Year ever was. These are the results you deserve. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside hours of bonus material? Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart Ben's new…
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 12
Deck the halls with that and likewise tra la la la la Banana Splits. Carol singing - did you do it? One of us did and one of us didnt. And thats not including the erstwhile former star of "Spender" who died for our sins. Probably. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 11
One of the biggest signifiers of the oncoming festive period would be when your favourite comic suddenly added some snow to the logo. But what of Ben and Phil's very different comic buying childhoods? And how does this affect Buster Capp's Christmas haul? All this and great news inside for all...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 10
Our first festive listener question has come down the SpeakPipe and its The History Buffet's Eric Stockberger who enquires on Ben and Phil's opinions about all things seasonably musical. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes,...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 9
Its vote time again and today we count down your very own top 10 "Celebrities You Most Associate With Christmas". A shoo in for the Queen? Or have Buble and Carey stuck in and pinched her crown overnight? And what's Ben doing in there? All this and more in today's mince-pie sized episode!...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 8
Pining for presents past again but this time its the VHSes we so desperately craved including those "exclusive to video" that strangely ended up on telly about 9 months later. What videos were you desperate for in the past? Let us know @dontletschart on Twitter. ======================== Want to...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 7
Christmas cards - yay or nay? Not in the era of coughing and death post but years that arent spent hiding in the spare room in your Spiderman onesie. Ben and Phil discuss cards and which of them is actually good at sending some. Plus: more robot rambling. ======================== Want to support...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 6
Its Sunday so we're keeping our best hushed tones and slippers in order to discuss television on Sunday around the festive period. Our pal Tim Worthington (@outonbluesix) has provided us a list to check through but we invariably ruin it. Listen in! ======================== Want to support the...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 5
Christingles - why and how? One of us is very familiar with the tradition that is sticking a candle into some fruit, the other is not. See if you can guess which is which? Although lets be fair, you already know. ======================== Want to support the making of the podcast and get early...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 4
If you're one of our American listeners you're probably ready for all the big Christmas episodes to air due to the strange way network TV works in the US. Here's a quiz to celebrate those unusual TV nuggets - will your favourite feature? ======================== Want to support the making of the...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 3
Its the first look at the answers to our recent Big Christmas Vote and a dive into your favourite "Non Hit Singles". It would be fair to say it confused a few of you and others had some of them controversial opinions but the robot's on at the end so everybody will be happy. Hear most of the songs...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 2
After yesterday's rather less than Crimbletastic edition, we're stepping it up a notch with a look at the Argos catalogue to see what we want best. Spoilers: Phil ruins it. Want to support the making of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, alongside hours of bonus material? Visit our...
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Don't Lets Chartvent Day 1
It's sort of Christmas, right? Stuff it, we're in tier 3 and Ian's The Booze have just delivered twelve gallons of Grandad's Old Eye-Blinder so lets get on our party pants and check out what happened on this day in history. I bet its going to be really festive...right? Right?...
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Series 3, Show 7 - You Cant Say Crumpets Anymore
Why is calling your child "Bloody" a bad idea? What were The Beatles doing to our Nation's youth in 1963? Can you truly fancy a spaceship? When will the "Star Wars Holiday Special" start being special? And just who is Jimmy Todhands? Answers will occur from the mouths and souls of Ben Baker and...
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Series 3, Show 6 - Gin-Faced Gregory
Why is Dr Seuss no help with chatting up a partner? When is Racist Cluedo too racist? Who spent all their money on "trains and Michaela Strachans"? What's the real ending to "Stand By Me"? Which presenter is planning to become dead from robot sex? As ever, we'll dive into all of the above…
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Series 3, Show 5 - Feed Me Pie For Investigations
How did the cowboy Black Bart give himself away? What happened to Sputnik-1? Who would win in a fight between Rin Tin Tin and Lassie? Was the event pre and post Congo? And why is Ben going to be given away to an ostrich farm? Answers to these will be forthcoming, along with countless other facts...
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Series 3, Show 4 - Unknown: Weather Michael
Which episode of Paddington featured his powerful death squads? How many Spanish Galleons is too many for private use? What is the best Steve Guttenberg film from 1984 to 1987? When will the fiancées of Darren Day get their reparations? and where does "Lovable Zanies II" fit into all this? The...
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Series 3, Show 3 - Six Renditions of Freebird and a Nazi
Where is a Cheese Heavy Nation? How did the bloke off Ghostwatch make it to the Sydney Opera House? Why are the British so good at murders? Which company hit big by giving people the squits? And at what end do you check a Stevenson's Plomp? Its all in your soapy new Don't Lets Chart with Robot....
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Series 3, Show 2 - A Signed Frankie Howerd UMD
Why did the band Muse sue Celine Dion? Who wouldn't welcome a traction engine through the post? Which rocker requires our Unsolicited Celebrity Advice? What is the best time? And how do the Alans fit into all this? Find out in another trouser-wrenching edition of the programme that aims to find...
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Series 3, Show 1 - Who Stinks Now?
How did a goat lead to a sporting disaster for over sixty years? Is Fall Guys the ideal way to decide who is best at religion? Was Thomas Edison's first film really called "Two Lasses Doing Some Kissing In The Bare"? Where is the best place to buy bees? And what did Bruce Springsteen pull out of…
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Don't Lets Chart Says Hello!
New to Dont Lets Chart and our daft mix of trivia, quizzes, history and very silly jokes? Here's a hello selection checking in with some of our favourite moments including: - The deadliest toys ever released, - Super sizzlin' Steamed Hams memes, - Amazon's greatest gravy collections, - A searing...
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The Dont Lets Chart Isolation Lockdown Roadshow
Well, "Don't Lets Chart" might be gone for now but over on Patreon we've just begun our Summer Roadshow touring around the country...minus the actually leaving the house and going anywhere aspect. In every all new hour-long show, there's the usual mix of charts, daftness and trivia, plus some the...
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Don't Lets Chart 221 - Goodbye
And so we say farewell to series two of Don't Lets Chart with the Top 15 BEST THINGS EVER as voted for by you lot! And its....weird. Really weird. We have classic epic fantasy clashing with bacon whilst Time Lords and Tea face off alongside crisps, brown booze, domestic animals and those bloody...
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The podcast that tries to make sense of now via the comfort of lists, weird trivia, arcane history and jokes about bums. If you think Bin Day should be a public holiday, you'll love Don't Lets Chart! Get early access for £3 a month here: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart
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