Worst Foot Forward

We're back with more sunshine, history and daftness in a hostful episode where we look back at previous episodes about terrible magic tricks, monarchs, legal defences, burlesque performers and playwrights and pick our favourite examples of each.

It's a real pic'n'mix this week including the many faces of William Shakespeare, blowjobs, the coolest spy of all time, Dom Pedro the Magnanimous and some very unhinged knifeplay.

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Strike a pose, this week we are strutting our stuff on the catwalk of catastrophe that is the World's Worst Fashion Show. Theatre director extraordinaire Lucy Jane Atkinson is with us to tell us of the time she found a fashion show up a mountain and to peek at the crotch of Rick Owens' more revealing creations. Ben takes us to the bizarre world of digital fashion and Barry delves into the past to meet Lucille, a trailblazer and trendsetter who was aboard the Titanic.

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Here we go! Our first ever live show, recorded on 29th February at the Network Theatre in Waterloo as part of London's VAULT Festival. We were joined by three brilliant guests - Roann McCloskey, Anna Ploszajski and Joel Morris - who returned to the pod for the World's Worst Dinner Party in front of a lovely, lively audience! We sample food from the Futurists Cookbook and, while we chow down, Roann talks to us about the World's Worst Party Trick, Anna proposes a surprising candidate for the World's Worst Ingredient, and Joel brings the Women's Institute and pirates together for the World's Worst After-Dinner Speech. With thanks to VAULT Festival and our producer Andy Goddard.

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**For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, with special guests Joel Morris, Dr Anna Ploszajski and one more to be announced... follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

This month's extra Patreon episode is inspired by one of our favourite ever discoveries on this show: Sweden and Finland's deployment of February 30th to regulate their calendars. We talk about Alfred Jarry, Pope Joan and get very confused indeed about maths.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support Ben's baby and Barry's crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

**For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, with special guests Bec Hill, Dr Anna Ploszajski and Joel Morris follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

We have food royalty with us this week, the King of Tarts, the Prince of Profiteroles, the Emperor of The World's Most Famous Tent: 2019 Great British Bake-Off champion David Atherton joins Ben and Barry to chat about the World's Worst Restaurant. David shares his own dining disasters, Ben takes us to meet the maitre d' from hell and Barry explores the murky pages of the Michelin Guide. And all three boys decide which celebrity they'd be most likely to eat.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support Ben's baby and Barry's crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

**For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, with special guests Bec Hill, Dr Anna Ploszajski and Joel Morris follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

Pop on an enormous ballgown, gargle until your vocal folds are primed and ready and prepare to belt out laughs at this week's episode all about the world's worst opera. Joined by an actual real domesticated opera singer - the brilliantly talented Delea Shand - Barry and Ben discover the cultural aberrations of operas that are short, long, Esperanto, Klingon and feature both helicopter blades and Paris Hilton (sadly not at the same time.)

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support Ben's baby and Barry's crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

**For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, with special guests Bec Hill, Dr Anna Ploszajski and Joel Morris follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

Join us 20,000 leagues under the sea this week in Davy Jones's locker, somewhere behind his used socks and half-eaten apples. We are in the company of improviser extraordinaire and lover of all things maritime Katy Schutte and we be sailing in search of ye World's Worst Sea Creature. Along the way we meet some beautiful blob fish, some slimy hagfish and learn exactly Where Be Dragons.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support Ben's baby and Barry's crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

**For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, with special guests Bec Hill, Dr Anna Ploszajski and one more to be announced... follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

150 not out ladies and gentlemen! To celebrate hitting this, frankly ridiculous, milestone Ben and Barry interview each other and find out a few more of their own personal worsts.

There's still lots of daft trivia thrown in too, including racehorse mating practices, Viking marriage ceremonies and the reason the Queen Mother became a drunk.

Here's to another 150!

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support Ben's baby and Barry's crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

**For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, with special guests Bec Hill, Dr Anna Ploszajski and one more to be announced... follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

This month's extra Patreon episode is about Dancing Plagues. Ben takes Barry on a waltz through pre-Reformation Europe, around shrines to St Vitus, as well as to dance marathons in Depression Era USA and some rebellious riotous Japanese dances in the 1860s.

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde

Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support Ben's baby and Barry's crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

**For tickets to our first ever live show in London on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ . Our guests include Bec Hill and Dr Anna Ploszajski plus another to be announced!**

Tickets please, and get your feet off the seat while minding the gap and moving down inside the carriage: It's time to hop aboard the World's Worst Train, destination This Podcast. Ben and Barry are joined in the caboose by Vicki Pipe whose All The Stations project has seen her visit all the train stations in the UK and Ireland. She is here to discourse on the rickety old Pacer trains which are basically buses on tracks, while Barry finds some presidential funeral trains and Ben sticks a train on some wheels and then on some more wheels for good measure.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support Ben's baby and Barry's crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com