How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures taught them about how to succeed better.
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S18, Ep10 Claudia Winkleman on the joy of imperfection
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I LOVE CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN. There. That's it. That's your shownotes. Well ok then... Claudia Winkleman is a broadcaster who feels like your best friend - whether she's co-hosting Strictly Come Dancing, fronting her Saturday morning BBC Radio 2 show or sending shivers down your spine as the presenter of The Traitors. And now, for our season finale, sh…
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S18 BONUS EPISODE: Georgia Harrison on taking back her power
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TW: image-based sexual abuse Georgia Harrison is a reality TV star turned activist - a woman who has used her own pain to change the law for other survivors of sexual assault. In 2020, her former boyfriend, Stephen Bear, shared intimate video footage of her online - filmed on his own CCTV cameras - without her consent. He posted it onto his OnlyFan…
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S18, Ep9 Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock: one of Britain's foremost space scientists on belonging and the meaning of life
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CW: miscarriage Maggie Aderin Pocock MBE is a space scientist, educator and broadcaster - and quite possibly the first How To Fail guest who has her own Barbie doll. Fascinated with space from an early age, she even built her own telescope as a teenager. Nowadays, she's the co-presenter of the long-running TV programme The Sky at Night, as well as …
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S18, Ep8 Dawn French on fertility, friendship and being an anti-perfectionist
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CW: suicide; infertility I know, I know, we don't normally release episodes on a Friday but when you're offered DAWN FRENCH, you release an episode on whatever blimmin' day of the week you can (and preferably all seven of them). I am so delighted to welcome the actor, comedian and bestselling author Dawn French to the podcast. She joins me to talk …
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S18, Ep7 Gillian Anderson on sex, body image and rebellion
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Continuing this season's line-up of ICONIC AND INCREDIBLE WOMEN, I am veritably trembling with delight to bring you today's guest: the extraordinary Gillian Anderson. Her 30-plus year career has taken her from playing FBI Special Agent Scully in The X Files to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. She’s been a dogged detective in The Fall …
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S18 MIDSEASON BONUS! Captain Sandy from Below Deck on surviving addiction, pirates - and reality TV
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CW: addiction Look, most of you know I love reality TV. And some of you might know that I love Below Deck so much I snuck in a mention of it in my latest novel. So when I was offered the chance to meet the legend that is Captain Sandra Yawn, of Below Deck Med fame, I jumped at it. (Luckily, not overboard). Even if you've never watched a single epis…
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S18, Ep6 Marina Abramovic: one of the greatest living artists on performance, passion and power
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It is impossible to put into words how much I adored this conversation. Which, in a way, is apt because Marina Abramovic is one of our greatest living artists and renowned for expressing through her work, the thoughts, feelings and emotional impulses that lie beyond words. Born in 1946 in post-war Yugoslavia, she painted from the age of 14 and spen…
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S18, Ep5 Geri Halliwell-Horner on writing, grief - and what the Spice Girls taught her
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On this week's episode, I welcome the all-singing, all-writing, all-dancing POWERHOUSE that is Geri Halliwell-Horner. She started out as Ginger Spice, in the most iconic girl band of all time (simple facts), the Spice Girls, selling over 100 million records worldwide. After the birth of her first child in 2006, she started writing while a single mo…
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S18, Ep4 Arlo Parks on the impossibility of perfection
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Arlo Parks is a singer, songwriter and poet. Her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams was released when she was just 21 and earned her two Grammy nominations, a BRIT Award and the Mercury Music Prize. Her second, My Soft Machine, came out earlier this year. This month also marks the publication of her first volume of poetry, The Magic Border, a colle…
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S18, Ep3 Rory Stewart on why politics is broken - and what to do about it
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Rory Stewart is a bestselling writer, podcaster, former politician, adventurer and charity boss. You might know him from his chart-topping podcast, The Rest is Politics, which features Stewart and Alastair Campbell disagreeing agreeably about issues of the day. After Eton and Oxford, Stewart briefly joined the army and then the diplomatic service. …
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S18, Ep2 Sara Pascoe on fertility, fear and what success really means
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TW: fertility and miscarriage Sara Pascoe is a critically acclaimed comedian, writer and actor. Her latest stand-up tour is called - aptly enough for this podcast - Success and her debut novel, Weirdo, is published tomorrow. It's a dark, funny, stream-of-consciousness narrative ride through the internal machinations of Sophie, an anxious, sometimes…
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S18, Ep1 Miriam Margolyes on not marrying a nice Jewish doctor
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WAHOOOOO! A whole new season of How To Fail, and WHAT an opening guest we have for you. Yes, it's the one and only Miriam Margolyes: actor, bestelling author and the nation's favourite talkshow guest. She's been described by Vogue as 'Britain's mischief-maker in chief' and started her career in radio and theatre, before moving into films (she won a…
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The F-Word Miniseries: Mo Gawdat and Elizabeth Day on Friendship
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Welcome to The How To Fail F-Word miniseries! Three days, three guests, three different F-words. In this final episode, the tables are turned and I’m the one being interviewed on...friendships. My interviewer is non other than my dear friend and beloved How To Fail repeat guest, the wonderful Mo Gawdat. And, as ever with us, the conversation goes b…
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The F-Word Miniseries: Nigel Morris on leaving school at 15 and becoming a billionaire
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Welcome to The How To Fail F-Word miniseries! Three days, three guests, three different F-words. Today, we have Nigel Morris...on fuel. Nigel Morris is the definition of a self-made man: born in Essex, the son of an army sergeant father and a Welsh mother, he left school at 15 before going on to co-found one of the biggest banks in the world, Capit…
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The F-Word Miniseries: Gabor Maté on Feelings
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Welcome to The How To Fail F-Word miniseries! Three days, three guests, three different F-words. Today, we start with Gabor Maté...on feelings. Gabor is a renowned speaker, physician and author; a practitioner who has revolutionised our understanding of stress, addiction and childhood development. He has written four bestselling books, including th…
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S17, BONUS EPISODE: Lucy Spraggan on survival, sobriety and staying true to herself
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TW: discussion of sensitive issues including sexual assault, suicide and addiction This interview contains Lucy's account of sexual assault. That account starts about 30 minutes in and is flagged before we discuss it. I don't have many words to write about this extraordinary guest because I really need you to listen to her story, in her own words. …
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S17 BONUS EPISODE! Dan Carter: one of the greatest rugby players of all time on what failure taught him about winning
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Dan Carter is one of the greatest rugby players in the history of the sport. The former All Black is one of only a handful of players to have won multiple World Cups and holds the all-time international points scoring record. His other achievements include - ahem - being voted the world’s sexiest male athlete in 2010. Today, in a very special bonus…
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