Worst Foot Forward

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/

For tickets to Barry's play The First on February 11th - 16th, follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/the-first/

For tickets to Ben's tour of Fablemaker, head to his website and follow the ticket links: https://www.benvandervelde.com/tour

Since the third Monday in January is, apparently, statistically the most depressing day of the year, we thought we'd whack a smile on your collective faces with an episode celebrating some of life's little upsides. Going over topics from episodes 36-40 we find the best gadgets, mythical creatures, words, strikers and environmentalists.

Expect to be uplifted, delighted and baffled in equal measure!

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @DomNicholls

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/

Boom-bang-a-bang! Worst Foot Forward are waving their deadly weapons around. Ben and Barry are joined by former army man and current defence correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, Dom Nicholls who tries his best to be sergeant-major to their minor misdemeanours. Dom gives us the lowdown on nuclear weaponry, especially the ill-fated hand-held nuclear rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Barry kills a multitude of different animals in the company of Catholic saints and our friends at the Special Operations Executive. And Ben takes the old joke about razorblades and tried to get as many barrels as possible onto a single gun. Take cover!

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @DomNicholls

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, follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

We're gonna make you an offer you can't refuse: an hour of sinister and stupid tales about mobsters who often make Bugsy Malone look like Don Corleone. Accompanied by award-winning stand-up comic Rahul Kohli, who mines his own chequered past growing up in Newcastle amongst some haphazard company, we discover why you should never let the mafia put up your Christmas decorations, the Yakuza's charming outreach work and even more evidence for Frank Sinatra being a total shit.

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @raulkohlicomic

Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support endeavours such as our upcoming live show: 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, follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

Ho ho ho! Happy "that time of year again when the old year dies and the new one rises from its ashes"! But this time we're also changing decades. For those of you who find this much change far too scary, we've got some good ol' fashioned nostalgia to keep you grounded. Ben and Barry, with help from some of their dutiful Twitter followers, have been digging out some of their favourite moments from Worst Foot Forward in 2019 and here they are in all their glory. Savour again delights such as a chorus of vaginas, the invasion of Sark by a single Frenchman, how Joan Rivers changed Cally Beaton's life, the saint who suckles at a deer's teet and the maddest ten minutes of your life as we lose our minds over toad sex. Thanks to all of you for listening in 2019, here's to a new year as silly as the last clearly was!

These crimes against podcasting were aided and abetted by: Dan Muggleton, Ari Eldjarn, Sara Pettit, Johnny Chiodini, Steve Gribbin, Jacob Hawley, Andrew Somerville, Andrew Gruen, Tom Hall, Alasdair Beckett-King, Cally Beaton, Rob Mulholland, Sooz Kempner, Katie Pritchard, Angus Dunican, Keir Shiels and Alexander Bennett.

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 endeavours such as our upcoming live show: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

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

** Still need a last-minute Christmas gift...Well, why not buy some tickets to our first ever live show, which is in London on February 29th 2020! Follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

Merry Christmas one and all! If you've already run out of topics of conversation with your family members, well Worst Foot Forward is here to help! Join us for a batch of festive trivia as Barry takes us on a sleigh-ride through some Christmas traditions from around the world. There is the New Zealand Christmas Tree, the Christmas Pickle, The Late Late Toy Show and the Swedish TV tradition that ruined its host's marriages. Thanks to all our listeners for their support this year and through the years, hope you have a peaceful holiday season and we'll see you in 2020!

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 on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

It's a momentous episode as we have our first ever $20/month Patreon donor joining us as a guest on the show! It's Sara Pettit, a history graduate, American gal and old chum of Ben from way back when, and she joins us to bring some of the World's Worst Tycoons to light. We delve into the backstories of big hitters like JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller, we learn about how the founder of IKEA got his big break and we discover the weirdest sperm bank ever.

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

Peer into your perpetually murky crystal ball and you might just be able to pick up this week's episode with comedian Chris Stokes, all about the world's worst mysteries. There's everything from the wildly implausible to the disappointingly mundane as we discover who might (but probably didn't) kill JFK, the sad tale of a very hungry French circus freak and why herring farts almost started a war.

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @_chris_stokes

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, follow this link: https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

This week our lipstick is smeared, our eyeliner is running and our foundations are subsiding as we apply the World's Worst Make-Up. We are joined by prosthetics artist Suzi Battersby (http://www.suzibattersby.com) who talks us through her work on Star Wars and Holby City as well as visiting some of cinema's less glorious and more racist moments. Ben goes on a jaunt with an Edwardian toff and prankster, while Barry has us glowing with radium-infused tinctures. There are also man-eating beds, horny giraffes and rabbis with a youthful sheen.

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

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! We are doing our first ever LIVE RECORDING of Worst Foot Forward! It's time to allow an audience to witness just how shambolic things are behind-the-mic…

On February 29th 2020, at 4.30pm, we are throwing the World's Worst Dinner Party at the VAULT Festival in Waterloo in London. Ben and Barry will be joined by 3 former guests of the podcast - yet to be announced, but we promise you, they're among our and your favourites from the past 3 years of shows. We will be trying out some food from the Futurists Cookbook. There will probably be party games, anecdotes, audience questions, our usual mix of silliness and trivia, and a whole lot else besides. Tickets are on sale right now so please get booking - because we want to see as many of you wonderful listeners as we can, and because we are terrified of no one coming! You can find all the details at this link here:

https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/

Follow us on Twitter for further updates, audience competitions and guest announcements: @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

Come brethren, follow us into the unknown in search of greater glory - or certainly greater glorious failure, as we set off on the World's Worst Pilgrimage. We are joined barefoot and penitent by comedian and history buff Mike Shephard who teaches us all we could ever hope to know about the Children's Crusade. Ben leads us three times around a few Irish islands, and Barry gives creepy Japanese dolls a Viking send off. There are also chapels for dogs, imaginary pilgrimages and the micronation of Seborga.

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @MikeShephard

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