Worst Foot Forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSOBLhYfaYs - join us on Monday 12th December at 8.30pm GMT for our Christmas quiz and movie watchalong of "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians"! Click the "Remind Me" button at the link, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @worstfootforward and bring your best festive cheer! Ahoy there, mateys! We are steering clear of rocks, cliffs and spooky Australian children's shows this week as comedian, lecturer and journalist Jane Hill leads us blinkingly around the World's Worst Lighthouse. There are towers built in the wrong place, lonely lookouts, and lighthouses whose afterlife concerned the afterlife. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @janehill64 Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan

COME SEE OUR LIVE SHOW AT VAULT FESTIVAL NEXT YEAR! SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 8:40PM IN WATERLOO: https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ Join us as we celebrate events preceding the World Cup, Intercalcalated Olympic Games and the FIFI Wild Cup. Anything as a distraction from the repulsive Human Rights Abuse Jamboree currently taking place in Qatar. Listen in and you'll find out the link between international football and ice tea, why you should never bet against Durham miners and how the organisers of the World's Fair trolled the early Olympic Games. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Wor

Once more it's time to put a bit of pep in your step with a sunnyside up episode about the best things in the world. This time we revisit episodes from 2018 to discover the best ever toys, tattoos, musical movies, epidemics (yes, it was tricky to find this one!) and gigs. We bring a cracking mix of prehistoric men, literate adventures, cross-dressing cannibalism and, for once, the Catholic church being the good guys. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Gazing into our crystal ball, what does the future hold for us? Well, apparently, it's an episode about the World's Worst Fortune Teller with comedian and Tarot officianado Carly Smallman. Carly takes aim at one of the biggest tv psychics in the UK, Barry throws chickens off a ship and Ben goes rogue in the green-grocers. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @carlysmallman Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Watch our Hallowe'en Movie Watchalong of "Plan 9 From Outer Space": https://youtu.be/2_FilcFKgEY?t=222  It's Hallowe'en, the most ghastly time of the year, and Ben is taking Barry through a calendar of catastrophe as he looks at the date October 31st through the ages. There are births and deaths, a German werewolf, and a British occultist - all the usual Worst Foot fare! Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Nuzzle down into your cosiest reading nook, pour an extra large dram of brandy into your hot chocolate and don your favourite cardie as we leaf through the pages to find history's worst novelist. Joined by author, poet, editor and podcast Tim Clare we read the absolute pits of the literary world so you don't have to.  From football manager side projects to prose's answer to William McGonnogal, with a smattering of world-class French pretension, there are no ends to huge ambition and lack of talent on display. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @TimClarePoet Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Get stuck into Tim's outstanding writing course: http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwritingbootcamp/ Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live s

It's time from a treat from your podcasting tricksters! Join Barry and Ben for a live streamed movie watchalong! We'll be curling up with popcorn and enjoy the frighteningly bad Plan 9 From Outer Space, Ed Wood's monstrously mish-mash masterpiece. Join us on Thursday 27th October at 8.30pm BST on the Worst Foot Forward YouTube Channel, where you can watch and chat along with us. To find us on YouTube, it might be quicker to go to tinyurl.com/worstfootforward, and you can set a reminder. Otherwise, simply click on the stream video itself which can be found right here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_FilcFKgEY Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx   

All rise for the dishonourable pair of Barry and Ben, joined by the arbitrary comedian and barrister Chris Kehoe for an episode all about the World's Worst Judge. There are fuddy-duddy judges with disdain for pop culture, American judges with a flair for sentencing and the clash between a punk hero and an icon of daytime TV: Johnny Rotten v Judge Judy. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

With the UK gripped by Queuemania in the wake of the death of the Queen, with some people waiting over 24 hours in line to view her coffin lying in state, Barry takes Ben on a winding journey through some facts about queuing. There are formulae for calculating wait times, the rules for waiting at Wimbledon and Soviet hamburgers. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows for 2023! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

This week we've raided the vaults to find the sunnyside option in our choice for fictional children, death scene, cult, president and fan fiction. It takes us a merry dance through the worlds of 1920s gangsters, the suspiciously unsinister side of Japanese neo-religions and the ever-reliable imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  To trivia...and beyond! The podcast goes galactic this week with an episode about the World's Worst Planet and yes, we know, if you have a problem with the show's naming convention you're too late. We're 259 episodes in, we ain't going back now! Alongside us is astrophysicist Dr. Alfredo Carpineti who explains to us EXACTLY what a planet is, while Ben looks back in time and Barry cheats a bit by mentioning some moons. Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

*Note to self: Remember to insert witty explanation about this Third Foot bonus episode about Procrastination before release* Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Don't panic! Well actually, do panic a little bit.  For this special Patreon episode Ben and Barry have cornered real live climate scientist and comedian Matt Winning to find out how bad the climate catastrophe really is (bad) and how farcical it could otherwise have been (very). We discover the comet madness that gripped the world in 1910, the dangers of angering floating brains in space, a German count with a 3-storey ark and the real reason why climate change is so very bad, plus what we might be able to do to start reversing its effects. Panicking a bit less now? Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @mattwinning Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward W

FIND DETAILS OF ALL PAST WFF GUESTS AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE 2022 ON OUR SPREADSHEET: https://www.docdroid.net/UHLaiVx/worst-foot-forward-guests-at-edfringe-2022-pdf  With a sweltering August, Ben on holiday and Barry performing his civid duty, the boys are taking a well earned hiatus. However, the pod-gods demand sacrifices and here we present at their altar a compilation episode! It contains some of our favourite moments featuring guests who are performing at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. There are standout stories like Sindhu Vee's gold medal tantrum, Glenn Moore's unfortunate numerical newsreader and John Robertson's troubling housemates. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first

Vote Worst Foot! We are waving banners, sporting rosettes and handing out manifestos written on the back of cigarette packets which week as we campaign for our candidates to be the World's Worst Political Party. We have Mark Thomas as our guest alongside us on the hustings, a political comedian of the highest calibre who tells us about his own experience of running for election and lots more besides. Ben puts forward a Czechslovakian party from the 1910s which was as much performance art as politics, and Barry sings the praises of rhinos, gorillas and two-tailed dogs. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot F

Our monthly bonus episode sees us dive deeper into the life of a figure who we discussed in our World's Worst Inventor episode, Captain Richard Pockrich. The Irish eccentric proposed putting wings on all the adults in Ireland, blood transfusions to promote immortality and also invented the eery glass harp, that musical instrument beloved of spooky and hypnotic types. He's going to be a hero in our book one day (it's being written, we promise!), so let's celebrate him now! Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Well suckle a she-wolf, it's time for an episode all about preposterous national wolves. We fly around the globe with our mind (but in the way the Kims of North Korea claim to be able to) as we encounter unlikely Celtic connections in the Americas, the horrifying domino effect of Turkey's claim to be the root of all language and some quite astonishing revelations about Her Majesty the Queen. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @otto_english  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Buy Otto's book here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Otto-English/Fake-History--Ten-Great-Lies-and-How-They-Shaped-the-World/25405510 Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.p

We are halfway through Wimbledon, one of the great sporting tournaments of the year. It seems appropriate to embrace our competitive spirits and discuss the World's Worst Tournament in the company of comedian, board gamer and FIFA Men's World Cup nerd James Cook. James tells us all about Mussolini's hosting skills, Ben waves a knight around on the end of a lance and Barry tells the touching story of the competition to find the world's very worst golfer. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @jamesecook Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

It’s the longest day of the year - which just means more time to listen to podcasts! Ben and Barry are here to brighten your day with a bonus episode all about the Midsummer Festival. We slide up and down the Swedish Maypole, smack ourselves in the face with Portuguese leeks and hammers, and we criticise Doctor Johnson’s bonfire. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Join us in a muddy ruck on the halfway line as we get down to the mucky business of finding the worst rugby XV of all time, in the company of award-winning Liverpudlian comic Sian Davies. We uncover the dark, bloody (and occassionally noble) histoy of rugby, as well as the dictators who had a penchant for a scrum and why the key to success includes a skill for amateur theatre. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @morriseysquiff Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot @sian_davies_comedy Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com