Worst Foot Forward

Buy tickets to see Barry's new short play at Miniaturists at the Arcola Theatre, June 12th 2022.

Here come the grooms! We are getting ourselves to the podcast on time this week with comedian Tadiwa Mahlunge to help plan the World's Worst Wedding Ceremony. We discover the truth behind Game of Thrones's most famous scene, how to ward of a plague with a mere bit of matrimony and how many weddings are too many weddings.

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It's been Ben and Barry's birthday this month and to celebrate they're digging out all the best facts about the month of May. Find out why maypole are a revolutionaries best friend and which day of the month you should celebreate Pinch Bum Day.

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This week we take to the skies alongside aeronautical history expert and commodore of the hugely esteemed Hush Kit blog Joe Coles. Together we uncover a history of marvellous men in their incredibly stupid flying machines that have too many or too few wings, propellers in places they really shouldn't be and the sort of safety record you'd expect at a nitroglycerin factory staffed by fire jugglers. Up, up and away!

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Someone told us it's all happening at the zoo. That someone is illustrator and science communicator Hana Ayoob, that zoo is the World's Worst Zoo, and what's happening there? Well, there's taxidermy from Barry, renegade honey badgers from Hana and escaped animal drills gone VERY wrong from Ben!

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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

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To celebrate us reaching an arbitrary, but also pretty impressive milestone, Ben and Barry find out absolutely everything about the number 250.

The trivia tunnels take them to Chinese slang, numerology, Fermat's last theorem and a cracking rabbinical anecdote.

Keep listening for another 250 episodes if you're a big fan of cobbled together facts about the number 500.

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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 future live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

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* We're now on Instagram! @worstfoot *

It's the big birthday, the day of days, let the jubilation commence! Worst Foot Forward's 250th Episode arrives in all its rag-glads, dressed down to the ones and ready to party like it's 1499. Ben and Barry share all sorts of facts and stories about birthdays, celebrations, presents, ageing and cake with a little help from a whole host of past guests. Joining us with their tales of terrible celebrations and baking disasters are Tiernan Douieb, Tatty Hennessy, Kit Chapman, Sacha Coward, Alasdair Beckett-King, Sadie Clark, Felix Trench, Bec Hill and Joel Morris.

We also have a couple bits of news which we chat about and explain in more detail in the opening 10 minutes. The headlines are that the podcast is hereafter going to be released every two weeks rather than weekly to accommodate our increasingly busy schedules. That schedule now includes writing the Worst Foot Forward book with the aid of our new writing agent, Emily Sweet - how exciting! We also welcome Nell Thomas on board as our social media manager / official archivist to help us reach more listeners and keep you all up-to-date on what's happening at Worst Foot Towers. And for Patreon donors, there will be new treats such as the chance to pose questions to us and our guests in advance of upcoming recordings.

So, we may be older, not much wiser, ever changing but still the same. We hope you enjoy the birthday episode, thanks for sticking by us for the past 5 years and never fear - there's much more silly trivia yet to come!

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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 more live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

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* We're now on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/worstfoot/ *

It's the week of our 250th show and we've planned a bumper celebration period for you! Coming up on Wednesday you'll get the 250th episode itself with lots of special appearances by past guests, facts sent in by you lot and some party trivia from Barry and Ben. On Friday there will be a 3rd Foot all about the number 250. But to start off the festivities, we asked our Twitter followers what their favourite Worst Foot episode has been and one show kept being mentioned: Episode 93 with Joel Morris about the World's Worst Musical Film. So we are re-releasing that show, your fan favourite choice, with a special new intro by Joel. Featuring lots of Ringo Starr, a smattering of sport and a whole lot of Liszt. Thanks for supporting us through the past 5 years, see you on Wednesday for the big birthday bash!

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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

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Roll up your sleeves, wiggle your fingers thaumaturgically and make sure your magical staff is fully charged as we uncover the worst wizards in history and fiction.

Joined by children's author and Norse god wrangler Louie Stowell we rate a parade of the usual suspects from Gandalf to Potter, discover wizarding celebrities from South London and New Zealand, 1500 year old men who claimed to know Christ and the most unlikely attraction in the history of Disney Land.

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Buy Louie's new book here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Louie-Stowell/Loki-A-Bad-Gods-Guide-to-Being-Good/26597409

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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

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CONTAAAAAAAAACT!

*sound of spinning propellers followed by the clanging of a disintegrating engine*

We're joined this week by star of West End musical hit Operation Mincemeat David Cumming to talk about the world's worst marvelous men in the their flying machines. We discover why animals make terrible pilots (other than their lack of opposable thumbs), the inspiring story of the man who never was and the astonishing amount of times pilots have acted with clownish disregard for the safety of their passengers.

Your exits are located here, here, here and there. Good luck. We're all counting on you.

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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

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It's getting a bit sunnier here in the UK so we're adopting a sunny outlook this week. It's one of our intermittent epiosdes where we go back to former shows, revisit the topics and look for the BEST in that category rather than worst. We explore episodes 81, 82, 84 and 85 and talk about the World's Best Prank, Resignation, Emperor and Detective. Expect appearances by clean lions, formally-written cake and our old friend Emperor Norton I of the USA.

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