Worst Foot Forward

We're feeling erotic, acrobatic and adventurous this week as we're joined by comedian, actor, writer and bedroom athlete Sam Pamphilon to decide upon the very worst that the karma sutra can throw at us. As well as the most infamous sex guide in history we discuss the practicalities, benefits and costs of certain well-known numbers to gay and straight couples, why you shouldn't mix extreme sports and sex and the absolute horror of sex in Greek theatre.

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We are lifting our eyes to the heavens this week and not just because we are rolling them in disgust but because we are trying to espy the world's worst astronomer. We have QI Elf and lapsed physicist Lauren Gilbert joining us to check out Tycho Brahe's nose collection, while Ben attends the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony and Barry wipes pigeon poop off his telescope.

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Ben is away on vacation this week so we're releasing our usual monthly bonus episode on a Monday as it's all about holidays! Featuring the world's shortest runways, audacious attempts to smuggle fish through airports, the king who tried to bugger a seaside town and the man who has invented more holidays than Hallmark.

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Open wide and get ready to swallow the most eccentric concoctions as we explore the pipettes and poisons of the world's worst medicine. Joined by author, journalist and world heavyweight fact-checking champion Tom Phillips we discover how many rattlesnakes you have to behead to make genuine snake oil, which is the very worst bit of a corpse to be treated with and welcome back an old friend to the show.

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It's the disco from Hell this week as we are spinning the records that comprise the World's Worst Novelty Songs. We have the excellent performer Guy Kelly alongside us to take us back to childhood drives listening to children's songs. Meanwhile Barry uncovers exactly how much is the doggie in the window and Ben reveals the tragedy that befell one Dutch rabbit at Christmas. With guest appearances from The Beatles, the 1986 Chicago Bears and Sophia Loren's cooking.

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For this month's bonus episode we have a guest! Having recently covered the World's Worst Historical Movie, one listener got in touch to bring a major omission to our attention: The Conqueror, starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. That was enough of an elevator pitch to catch our attention. Even better, Ryan Uytdewilligen has also written a book about that ill-fated project. We have brought him onto this Third Foot to tell us all about Howard Hughes's love of epics, John Wayne's dumpster diving and how literally toxic this entire production was.

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Saddle up on your finest seven-legged steed and join us for some dragon-slaying. Joined by top Twitch streamer PapaGlitch aka Chris Purchase we head into the thickets of Russian cinema, the crumbling coda of Marlon Brando's career and a lot of stuff that looks like softcore pornography but isn't softcore pornography to find the absolute pits of the fantast genre.

Read about the background to mysterious Russian anti-Semitic vegetable here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/rv9tew/does_anyone_have_any_info_about_the_mythical/

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This week you find us moaning and groaning in agony as we lie broken and scarred after our search for the World's Worst Pain. We are joined by the fantastic comedian Andrea Hubert to investigate emotional and physical hurt with cameos by insects which hunt tarantulas, the worst case of tonsilitis one doctor has ever seen and the pastry wars of Gascony.

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Half of us are still recovering from Omicron here at WFF Towers, so rather than make ourselves feel even worse,we've opened up the vaults and picked five of the best examples of topics from previous episodes.

Ben and Barry give their suggestions for the best therapist, housemate, hangover, band name and dance. There's some classic choices, some dubious arguments and about as much Beatles, Muppets and Irish history as you'd expect.

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Seconds out, round 241 in our ongoing battle with trivia itself. This week we're on the ropes with former MMA fighter and current excellent comedian John Meagher as we take on all-comers for the title of World's Worst Boxer. There's an arrogant YouTuber - not that one - a journeyman who wins at losing, and the marquess whose reputation for fair play is very much misplaced.

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