Bakewell, a small town in Derbyshire, England, is allegedly world famous for the Bakewell Pudding.

Legend has it that the Bakewell Pudding came about by accident when a number of ingredients for a pastry that is not widely consumed in North America were incorrectly combined to create a new pastry that is also not widely consumed in North America.

Since most residents of Fort Wayne know nothing about the Bakewell Pudding, the most famous Bakewell export must therefore be Northeast Indiana Public Radio program director Andrew Anderson.

Anderson’s unassuming, unmistakably British voice has been heard in various contexts (including as co-host of the local music showcase, “Meet the Music”) since January.

Anderson, for the record, has never consumed a Bakewell Pudding. They’re strictly for tourists, he said.

The story of how he came to be here is best prefaced with spy movie dialogue.

“I had a man on the inside,” Anderson says.

That man is NIPR general manager Will Murphy, whom Anderson met when the former was employed at WFHB in Bloomington and the latter was a grad student in journalism in that city.

As a boy growing up in bucolic Bakewell, Anderson said he was a science- and football-minded lad (football meaning soccer).

Anderson’s mother was a prosecutor specializing in sex-and-drug crimes and his father was a coroner, so he presumably had plenty of nuts-and-bolts opportunities to pique his scientific curiosity.

“I performed experiments in my bedroom that I seem to remember made me ill,” he said. “Growing things with mold and so on.”

He was also snotty.

“I was very obnoxious and snotty to everyone,” he said.

Anderson, 25, said he was in trouble a lot as a kid and either didn’t understand or refused to recognize what his boundaries were. He said he tries “to be a bit calmer” in most regards these days.

Anderson studied geography at the University of Sheffield and then journalism at Indiana University in Bloomington.

His hope was to become a science writer, he said. But he admits he is “not really very ambitious in terms of achievement.”

“I just like doing things that I find interesting,” he said.

Among those things is playing music in numerous bands.

Before he enrolled at IU, he toured the known world in a punk band called the Hipshakes. He currently performs in three bands with Bloomington roots: Proto Idiot, Jerome and the Psychics, and the Marble Vanity.

A nice photo of Anderson screaming his head off in a Proto-Idiotic context can be found at the Slovenly Records website, www.slovenly.com.

His girlfriend is a member of the Chicago band Tyler Jon Tyler, Anderson said.

As much time as he devotes to performing music, Anderson said he doesn’t see it as anything more than a hobby.

“As a lifestyle, it’s not very sustainable,” he said.

Anderson said his parents have always supported him in all his decisions (with a preference for the non-snotty ones, most likely).

“When I first played music, they came to my shows,” he said. “They helped me move here. They lent me some money that I am sure they hope to see paid back. Hope springs eternal.”

Anderson said there are a number of misconceptions about British-born people that he seems happy to clear up. One is that a British accent automatically connotes intelligence.

“That’s definitely not true,” he said. “We’re just as stupid as you, if not more so.”

Another is that someone from the United Kingdom must dislike Fort Wayne.

“I like that it is cheap to live here,” he said. “It encourages people to be very creative and to do interesting things.”

As much time as he spends speaking serenely into a public radio mic, Anderson said he prefers to work behind the scenes.

“I love working with volunteers,” he said, “helping people to get their programs on the air.”

But it seems likely that his time in the spotlight will only increase from here.

Anderson’s “Meet the Music” co-host, Julia Meek, said the show recently received a grant for live-remote broadcast equipment, which means “Meet the Music” can hit the road periodically.

Meek and Anderson will celebrate the grant at a live, free and open-to-the-public party at 7 p.m. Thursday at C2G Music Hall.