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Jan 30, 2017

Episode five lands in a week where major protests are shaking the world in support of women's rights and refugees. So comedian and podcaster Tiernan Douieb joins us to look at some of the less effective and affecting protests that the world has ever witnessed - many of them from our new favourite nemesis, the People for...


Jan 23, 2017

It's episode four and our guest is Ellie Gibson - comedian, co-host of Dara Ó’Briain’s Go 8-Bit, one half of the Scummy Mummies (http://www.scummymummies.com) and video games journalist. With Ellie's help, we're rampaging through various levels of awfulness in search of the Big Boss of terrible console games. The...


Jan 16, 2017

In episode three, we are joined by musical comedian Jay Foreman to unpick the back catalogue of the world's greatest band in the hunt for the World's Worst Beatles Song. Ben and Jay’s exhaustive knowledge sees Barry trying desperately to hold his own while we explore mass murder as a subject for pop songs,...


Jan 9, 2017

For our second episode we don our flapping red capes, lower masks over our eyes and pop our underpants proudly over our trousers as we delve into the heyday of comic books to uncover the most terrible, pointless and ineffective superheroes of all-time. There's a huge supporting cast of superheroes who really should have...


Jan 2, 2017

Kicking off our first episode we chat to Professor Sophie Scott, an expert in neuroscience and the way that laughter works in the brain. Our subject matter is not as light and fluffy, as we explore the worst psychological treatments of all time, taking us on a journey from Bristol's most infamous asylum to Ancient...