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Ep 155: Lucy Jane Atkinson – World’s Worst Fashion Show Monday, March 9th, 2020
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 Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @lucypapoosky Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 154: LIVE SHOW – World’s Worst Dinner Party Monday, March 2nd, 2020
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 Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @romeister8 @AnnaPloszajski @ruleofthreepod Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support our NEXT live show: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Live Podcast, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
The Third Foot: Leap Years (Bonus Episode) Friday, February 28th, 2020
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://vaultfestivalcom/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 Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Third Foot, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 153: David Atherton – World’s Worst Restaurant Monday, February 24th, 2020
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://vaultfestivalcom/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 Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @nomadbakerdavid Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 152: Delea Shand – World’s Worst Opera Monday, February 17th, 2020
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://vaultfestivalcom/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) Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @MadameOpera Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 151: Katy Schutte – World’s Worst Sea Creature Monday, February 10th, 2020
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://vaultfestivalcom/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 Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @katyschutte Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Science & Nature, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 150: This Is Your Worst Life Monday, February 3rd, 2020
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://vaultfestivalcom/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! Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
The Third Foot: Dancing Plagues (Bonus Episode) Friday, January 31st, 2020
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://vaultfestivalcom/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 wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Science & Nature, Third Foot, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 149: Vicki Pipe – World’s Worst Train Monday, January 27th, 2020
For tickets to our first ever live show in London on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @norwegiancheese Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Science & Nature, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 148b: Best of the Worst of the Best 8 Monday, January 20th, 2020
For tickets to our first ever live show in London on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/whats-on/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ For tickets to Barry's play The First on February 11th - 16th, follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/whats-on/the-first/ For tickets to Ben's tour of Fablemaker, head to his website and follow the ticket links: https://wwwbenvanderveldecom/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 wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 148: Dominic Nicholls – World’s Worst Weapon Monday, January 13th, 2020
For tickets to our first ever live show in London on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 147: Rahul Kohli – World’s Worst Mob Boss Monday, January 6th, 2020
For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
The World’s Worst ‘Best of 2019’ Episode Monday, December 30th, 2019
For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward
The Third Foot: Christmas Traditions (Bonus Episode) Wednesday, December 25th, 2019
Still need a last-minute Christmas giftWell, why not buy some tickets to our first ever live show, which is in London on February 29th 2020! Follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Third Foot, Worst Foot Forward
Ep 146: Sara Pettit – World’s Worst Tycoon Monday, December 23rd, 2019
For tickets to our first ever live show on February 29th 2020, follow this link: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward