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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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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S10, Ep2 How to Fail: Matt Haig

S10, Ep2 How to Fail: Matt Haig

Today, I invite you to listen to one of my most-requested guests. I've lost count of the number of messages I've receive... Read more

10 Feb 2021

1hr 1min

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How to Fail: End of Season Two

How to Fail: End of Season Two

So here we are at the end of SEASON TWO of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, 16 wonderful interviews (and untold numbers o... Read more

22 Nov 2018

12mins

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S3, Ep1 How to Fail: Lily Allen

S3, Ep1 How to Fail: Lily Allen

Haaaappy New Year! We're back with a whole new season and we open with a bona fide musical superstar: Lily Allen.A singe... Read more

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S3, Ep4 How to Fail: Deborah Frances-White

S3, Ep4 How to Fail: Deborah Frances-White

My guest this week is Deborah Frances-White: an award-winning stand-up comedian, author and quite possibly the defining ... Read more

23 Jan 2019

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S10, Ep1 How to Fail: Jameela Jamil

S10, Ep1 How to Fail: Jameela Jamil

[TW: contains discussion of eating disorders, including references to calorie-counting and body dysmorphia]We're back, b... Read more

3 Feb 2021

57mins

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S6, Ep 8 How to Fail: Jane Garvey

S6, Ep 8 How to Fail: Jane Garvey

*SEASON FINALE KLAXON* I mean...where does the time go? A minute ago it was summer and now here I am posting the final e... Read more

20 Nov 2019

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S6, Ep2 How to Fail: Alain De Botton

S6, Ep2 How to Fail: Alain De Botton

This week on How To Fail, we are doing something slightly different. I know, I know, we don't like change, but sometimes... Read more

2 Oct 2019

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S7, Ep1 How to Fail: Andrew Scott

S7, Ep1 How to Fail: Andrew Scott

HAPPPPPY NEW YEAAARRRR! I hope you've woken up with a sense of rejuvenating freshness about the year ahead, but if you h... Read more

1 Jan 2020

58mins

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S5, Ep3 How to Fail: Emeli Sandé

S5, Ep3 How to Fail: Emeli Sandé

This week, I chat to the chart-topping singer Emeli Sandé about life, love, fame...and all the nitty gritty bits in betw... Read more

10 Jul 2019

44mins

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S4, Ep8 How to Fail: Jamie Laing

S4, Ep8 How to Fail: Jamie Laing

'And now, the end is near / And so I face the final curtain...'Yes, it's the SEASON FINALE! I know, I know: it's gone so... Read more

22 May 2019

56mins

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SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Leanne Hainsby

SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Leanne Hainsby

It's the weirdest time of the year, when all the days become a formless sludge and we start to miss getting emails. Navi... Read more

30 Dec 2020

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S5, Ep6 How to Fail: Samin Nosrat

S5, Ep6 How to Fail: Samin Nosrat

Oh, Samin Nosrat! Where do I start? With her ebullient personality and wildly infectious laugh? With her four-part Netfl... Read more

31 Jul 2019

53mins

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S6, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Lemn Sissay

S6, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Lemn Sissay

For this extra-special bonus episode, I'm delighted to welcome Lemn Sissay to the podcast. Lemn is a poet, author and br... Read more

12 Nov 2019

50mins

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S4, Ep3 How to Fail: Tracey Thorn

S4, Ep3 How to Fail: Tracey Thorn

My guest this week is the fantastic Tracey Thorn, who I basically grew up listening to. She was one-half of Everything B... Read more

17 Apr 2019

44mins

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S3, Ep8 How to Fail: Pandora Sykes

S3, Ep8 How to Fail: Pandora Sykes

This week I get to interview one of my favourite fellow podcasters: Pandora Sykes is a journalist,  co-host of The High ... Read more

20 Feb 2019

52mins

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S6, Ep1 How to Fail: Camilla Thurlow

S6, Ep1 How to Fail: Camilla Thurlow

We're back! Did you miss us? Go on...say you did. I'm really very, very needy.It's such a treat for me to be opening sea... Read more

25 Sep 2019

56mins

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S2, Ep7 How to Fail: Tara Westover

S2, Ep7 How to Fail: Tara Westover

This week, I bring you a truly incredible woman. Her name is Tara Westover. She wrote a memoir called Educated, which is... Read more

14 Nov 2018

47mins

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S7, Ep2 How to Fail: Malcolm Gladwell

S7, Ep2 How to Fail: Malcolm Gladwell

TW: contains references to police brutality against Black peopleMy guest this week is Malcolm Gladwell, a man who has ch... Read more

8 Jan 2020

45mins

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S4, Ep4 How to Fail: Mo Gawdat

S4, Ep4 How to Fail: Mo Gawdat

Just occasionally in life, you meet someone who changes your way of thinking about the world. The shift might be subtle ... Read more

24 Apr 2019

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S6, Ep6 How to Fail: George Alagiah

S6, Ep6 How to Fail: George Alagiah

For 15 years, George Alagiah has been a familiar face on our television screens as the presenter of the BBC's Six O'Cloc... Read more

30 Oct 2019

47mins

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