How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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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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11.25.2020

For the next four weeks, we'll be introducing you to four 'ordinary' people with four extraordinary stories as part of a one-off How To Fail miniseries in partnership with Grey Goose. First up: Yinka Bokinni, a radio DJ who grew ...

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11.25.2020 A How to Fail Miniseries: Yinka Bokinni For the next four weeks, we'll be introducing you to four 'ordinary' people with four extraordinary stories as part of a one-off How To Fail miniseries in partnership with Grey Goose. First up: Yinka Bokinni, a radio DJ who grew ...
11.24.2020 S9, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Jamie Dornan For our second and final bonus episode this season, I bring you the dulcet tones of actor Jamie Dornan. Most recently seen in The Fall (currently on Netflix and BBC iPlayer) playing a serial killer with an incongruously happy family ...
10.28.2020 S9, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Claudia Rankine It is such an honour to welcome the extraordinary Claudia Rankine to the podcast. She is a poet, playwright and essayist, a woman who's life's work has been devoted to the interrogation of race and white supremacy and to the ...
10.14.2020 S9, Ep8 How to Fail: James Acaster Yes, it's the SEASON FINALE - I know, I know, it comes around so quickly doesn't it? But fear not, for we have an excellent guest in the form of James Acaster: comedian, podcaster, author and music enthusiast (specifically enthusiastic ...
10.07.2020 S9, Ep7 How to Fail: Nadiya Hussain [TW: contains discussion of sexual assault] You asked - and we listened. Welcome to one of the most requested podcast guests of all time, the wonderful Nadiya Hussain. Baker, tv presenter, author and all-round good egg, Nadiya joins me to ...
09.30.2020 S9, Ep6 How to Fail: Failosophy Special *SPECIAL EPISODE KLAXON* To mark the publication of my new book, Failosophy, I take a trip down memory lane and share my favourite moments from the How To Fail archive, featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mo Gawdat, Alain de Botton and many, ...
09.23.2020 S9, Ep5 How to Fail: Ovie Soko I'VE GOT A TEXT...MESSAGE. This week's guest is Ovie Soko, a man who entered the Love Island villa in 2019 and rapidly became iconic by uttering this phrase. But he's so much more than a reality TV star: famed for ...
09.16.2020 S9, Ep 4 How to Fail: Ruby Wax I've wanted to get this guest on for ages and now - hooray! - here she is: the inimitable Ruby Wax. Ruby started out as an actress at the RSC, took a side-step into comedy and had a hugely successful ...
09.15.2020 S9, Ep3 How to Fail: Annie Nightingale At the age of 80, Annie Nightingale still manages to be one of the most forward-looking and future-facing people I've ever interviewed. She is the legendary Radio 1 DJ - the first woman ever to get a job at the ...
09.02.2020 S9, Ep2 How to Fail: Mohsin Zaidi Mohsin Zaidi's memoir, A Dutiful Boy, is one of the most powerful and emotive books I've read this year. It tells the story of his upbringing in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout Shia Muslim community. His ...
08.26.2020 S9, Ep1 How to Fail: Adam Buxton IT'S SEASON NINE AND I FEEL FINE, BABY! And we open with a humdinger - the podcasting king, comedy legend and all-round thoroughly decent bloke that is...[drum roll + X Factor announcer voice]...ADAM BUXTON. Adam joins me to talk about ...
08.05.2020 S8, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Gloria Steinem GLORIA STEINEM. Gloria ACTUAL Steinem. For this very special bonus episode, I had the absolute honour of interviewing one of my all-time heroes, the feminist activist, writer and icon, Gloria Steinem. And yes, I'm still pinching myself. We talk about ...
07.22.2020 S8, Ep8 How to Fail: Bernardine Evaristo It is the SEASON FINALE, BABY! I know, I know - it goes so quickly doesn't it? But here we are, two months after we started season eight, with a truly phenomenal guest. Bernardine Evaristo was the first black woman ...
07.15.2020 S8, Ep7 How to Fail: Siena Castellon Siena Castellon is my youngest ever guest. She's a 17-year-old activist and mentor. She is autistic, has dyslexia and dyspraxia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. And she's just published her first book. Her book, The Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide: How ...
07.08.2020 S8, Ep6 How to Fail: Glennon Doyle This week, I bring you the utterly sensational Glennon Doyle. She is the author of three books, the latest of which, Untamed, is a memoir that defies easy categorisation - somewhat like the woman herself. Untamed is thrilling, original and ...
07.01.2020 S8, Ep5 How to Fail: Julia Samuel Today's guest is someone I fell in platonic love with by reading her work. Julia Samuel is one of the country's leading psychotherapists but she is also well-known as an author. Her first book, Grief Works, was a Sunday Times ...
06.24.2020 S8, Ep4 How to Fail: Scarlett Moffatt Scarlett Moffatt was working at the checkout in Asda when she and he family got the chance to be on Channel 4's Gogglebox. She rapidly became the show's break-out star with her brilliant one-liners. Television fame followed - she co-presented ...
06.17.2020 S8, Ep3 How to Fail: Matthew Syed Matthew Syed is an acclaimed author, newspaper columnist and broadcaster. He is also, in many ways, is the father of failure. I mean that as a compliment, obviously. Through his seminal, bestselling books - Bounce, Black Box Thinking and his ...
06.10.2020 S8, Ep2 How to Fail: Samantha Irby This episode was recorded before recent tragic events in America. There are links to useful Black Lives Matter resources and ways to help below You know when you read someone's work and feel like you'd be friends in real life, ...
06.03.2020 S8, Ep1 How to Fail: Jessie Ware This episode was recorded before recent tragic events in America. There are links to useful Black Lives Matter resources and ways to help below WE'RE BAAAAAACCCCKKKK just like Backstreet, The Mack, and the toilet roll that's now in stock again ...
05.20.2020 SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Daisy Edgar-Jones on being the star of Normal People, the lockdown television hit everyone is talking about Ok, so I said I was done with the special lockdown episodes but, forgive me, I CHANGED MY MIND. The reason for this is that I watched Normal People and thought it was the most exceptional piece of television I've ...
04.22.2020 SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Henry Holland on business failure in the time of Covid-19 In the last of four special episodes specifically designed to help you through lockdown and Covid-19 anxiety, I welcome the fashion designer Henry Holland onto the podcast. This week, How To Fail returns to its usual format of discussing three ...
04.15.2020 SPECIAL EPISODE! How To Fail: Listeners share their Coronavirus stories For this extra-special listener episode, I asked you to get in touch with your stories. And you did not let me down. I received so many responses that when I printed them out they ran to over 100 pages of ...
03.31.2020 SPECIAL EPISODE! How To Fail: Alain De Botton on embracing vulnerability in the age of Coronavirus In the second of two special episodes, the renowned philosopher Alain de Botton, returns to How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to talk about how to be human and how to stay (relatively) sane in the grip of a global ...
03.23.2020 SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Mo Gawdat on how to cope with anxiety in a time of Coronavirus Hello. I hope you're all doing ok out there. Bit of a strange time isn't it? It can feel overwhelming to be living through a global pandemic, but there are things all of us can do - small things that ...
03.04.2020 S7, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Deliciously Ella SURPRISE! Here I am, clogging up your podcast feed again. Yes, I know I said that Frankie Bridge was the last episode in season 7, but I might have slightly not been telling you the whole truth because here I ...
02.18.2020 S7, Ep8 How to Fail: Frankie Bridge Frankie Bridge is probably best known as a member of one of the UK's most successful girl bands of all time, The Saturdays. But, more recently, it's as a mental health advocate that she has been making headlines. Her new ...
02.12.2020 S7, Ep7 How to Fail: Adam Pearson So. This podcast episode almost didn't happen because I'd forgotten to put it into my iCal (I find any diary that isn't paper so confusing, don't you?) and on the allotted day, I had a text from sound engineer Chris ...
02.05.2020 S7, Ep6 How to Fail: Marian Keyes Marian Keyes is one of those people who you think can't POSSIBLY be as lovely and talented and nice as everyone says she is. She must have a hidden dark side, I thought. Maybe she's a terrible diva who will ...
01.29.2020 S7, Ep5 How to Fail: Eniola Aluko Eniola Aluko is a former footballer who bears the notable distinction of being one of only 11 women to play for England over 100 times and the first ever female pundit on Match of the Day. Born in Nigeria, she ...
01.22.2020 S7, Ep4 How to Fail: Tom Kerridge This week, the podcast welcomes its first ever Michelin-starred chef. Yes...it's Tom Kerridge! And what a chef he is. He failed at school, but found his way in catering college after the death of his Dad. He climbed the ranks ...
01.15.2020 S7, Ep3 How to Fail: Mabel My guest today has the middle name Alabama-Pearl, which is pretty cool but NOT QUITE AS COOL as the fact that she's a chart-topping pop-star who has racked up three top-10 hits and recently wrote one of the best Christmas ...
01.08.2020 S7, Ep2 How to Fail: Malcolm Gladwell TW: contains references to police brutality against Black people My guest this week is Malcolm Gladwell, a man who has challenged and changed the way we think with six bestselling books including The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. Gladwell also ...
01.01.2020 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 haven't - if you're hungover or feeling weird or sad or discombobulated or tired or like you haven't achieved ...
11.20.2019 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 episode of Season Six and it's a mere 24 shopping days left until Christmas. Sheesh. But what ...
11.12.2019 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 broadcaster whose memoir, My Name Is Why, is one of the most moving I have ever read. In it, he ...
11.06.2019 S6, Ep7 How to Fail: Fearne Cotton Fearne Cotton blazed the trail for podcasts like mine. When she launched Happy Place in March 2018, it went straight to the top of the iTunes chart and has seemingly stayed there ever since. It has done so much to ...
10.30.2019 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'Clock News. Before that, he was one of the corporation's most respected foreign correspondents. Before that, he was born ...
10.23.2019 S6, Ep5 How to Fail: Shirlie Kemp Today, I welcome Shirlie Kemp to the podcast. She was an 80s icon: a backing dancer for Wham! who ACTUALLY APPEARED IN THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'LAST CHRISTMAS', as well as being a best friend to George Michael until his ...
10.16.2019 S6, Ep4 How to Fail: Lisa Taddeo Lisa Taddeo is a phenomenon. Although she is too humble to recognise that description of herself. But this is a journalist and author who spent eight years - EIGHT YEARS - of her life travelling the United States and embedding ...
10.09.2019 S6, Ep3 How to Fail: Cush Jumbo If you're a fan of The Good Wife or The Good Fight (and if not, why not?) you will know Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn, the whip-smart, ambitious lawyer who speaks with a flawless American accent. But Cush was actually ...
10.02.2019 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 IT'S GOOD FOR US. It's especially good for us when it comes in the form of Alain de ...
09.25.2019 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 season six with a truly fantastic guest: Camilla Thurlow. Camilla was always one of the most ...
08.21.2019 S5 BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Philippa Perry and Sadie Jones A live recording of a one-off How To Fail With Elizabeth Day special with authors Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) and Sadie Jones (The Snakes) about How To Fail...At Families. Recorded in front of a ...
08.14.2019 S5, Ep8 How to Fail: Jess Phillips Well, old friend, here we are again. The end of another season. Where does the time go? I saved this guest for the finale because she's bloody spectacular. Jess Phillips is the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, a campaigner on ...
08.07.2019 S5, Ep7 How to Fail: Meera Syal This week, I welcome the multi-talented Meera Syal to the podcast: actor, comedian, playwright, novelist, producer and, most notably, sister-of-my-friend-Rajeev. Meera first came to prominence when she co-wrote and starred in the award-winning BBC comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and ...
07.31.2019 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 Netflix show, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat where she travels the world eating freshly baked focaccia and Japanese seaweed? Or with the award-winning, ...
07.24.2019 S5, Ep5 How to Fail: Dame Kelly Holmes I'm so delighted to welcome my first ever OLYMPIC ATHLETE onto the podcast this week. And not just any Olympic athlete, but double-gold medal winner, Kelly Holmes, who also just so happens to be my first DAME on How To ...
07.17.2019 S5, Ep4 How to Fail: Francesca Segal This week, my guest is the writer Francesca Segal whose recently published memoir, Mother Ship, details the birth of her twin daughters 10 weeks prematurely. Her first failure is, in Segal's own words, her failure 'to stay pregnant' and the ...
07.10.2019 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 between. Emeli has sold over 19 million singles, won four Brit Awards and is about to return after a three-year ...

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