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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S7, Ep3 How to Fail: Mabel

01.15.2020

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 ...

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day episodes:

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 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 hosts his own highly successful podcast, Revisionist History and ...
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 ...
07.03.2019 S5, Ep2 How To Fail: FLEABAG IS BACK Yes. That's right. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is back. One year on from her debut appearance on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, my first ever guest returns to talk about the craziness of her last 12 months, during which she has ...
06.26.2019 S5, Ep1 How to Fail: Nigel Slater We’re BAAACK! As House of Pain once rapped in their immortal hit Jump Around, ‘Just like the Prodigal Son I’ve returned’. Yes, here we are for Season 5 of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day: eight sparkling new episodes featuring ...
05.22.2019 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 fast hasn't it? What's that they say about time flying when you're having fun ...
05.15.2019 S4, Ep7 How to Fail: Nesrine Malik This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to welcome the brilliant Nesrine Malik, a British-Sudanese writer and newspaper columnist who has recently been longlisted for the prestigious Orwell Prize and whose forthcoming book, We Need New Stories, is a riveting ...
05.08.2019 S4, Ep6 How to Fail: Andy McNab You could say that my guest this week became famous because of failure. Andy McNab led the Bravo Two Zero SAS mission during the first Gulf War but his team was compromised soon after they were dropped into Iraq in ...
05.01.2019 S4, Ep5 How to Fail: Charly Cox I have my FIRST POET on the podcast this week - and my, what a poet. Charly Cox is not only a beautiful soul but a beautiful chronicler of what it is to be human. Her first collection, She Must ...
04.24.2019 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 or it might be seismic, but afterwards, you are never quite the same again. This is what happened to ...
04.17.2019 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 But The Girl, guest vocalist on Massive Attack's phenomenal Protection album and lately has launched her own solo career ...
04.10.2019 S4, Ep2 How to Fail: John Crace My guest this week is John Crace, one of our foremost journalists and critics. Probably best known for his role at the Guardian as parliamentary sketch-writer (it was he who famously coined the term ‘Maybot’ to describe our besieged Prime ...
04.03.2019 S4, Ep1 How to Fail: Vicky McClure We’re baaaaaack! And to celebrate our fourth season, please welcome the one, the only, VICKY MCCLURE. You’re in for a treat with this one. Vicky is not only one of my favourite actresses but also one of my favourite people, ...
02.27.2019 S3, Ep9 How to Fail: Haemin Sunim Sniff. Sob. Wail and gnashing of teeth. Yes, it’s the SEASON THREE FINALE already - how did that happen? For our final episode in this series, I had the great privilege of talking to Haemin Sunim, one of the most ...
02.22.2019 S3 BONUS EPISODE How to Fail: Kristen Roupenian Ahead of next week's season finale, I offer you, my wonderful listeners, a whole new BONUS EPISODE. I know, I'm too good to you, I really am. No, but honestly, thank you so much for your continued support - for ...
02.20.2019 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 Low and all-round woman of impeccable taste (I mean, she must be to have agreed to come on How ...
02.13.2019 S3, Ep7 How to Fail: Sharmaine Lovegrove This week on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, my guest is the brilliant Sharmaine Lovegrove. Sharmaine is a champion of stories. As a publisher, she heads up her own imprint, Dialogue Books, at Little, Brown and has been instrumental ...
02.06.2019 S3, Ep6 How to Fail: James O'Brien Today's guest is quite possibly one of the most intimidating people to interview given his own reputation as a fearsome interrogator. But fine, I'll give it a go. James O'Brien is an LBC radio presenter who hosts a daily phone-in ...
01.30.2019 S3, Ep 5 How to Fail: Raven Smith This week my guest is Raven Smith who, as well as having one of the best names dot dot dot EVER is also the funniest man on Instagram (it's true, don't @ me). Smith is a columnist for British Vogue, ...
01.23.2019 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 feminist of our generation. You'll probably know her from her hit podcast, The Guilty Feminist, or from her book of the same name ...
01.16.2019 S3; Ep3 How to Fail: Jonny Benjamin Ok, so full disclosure: I cried during this interview. You will quite possibly cry too. You will quite possibly need a box of tissues next to you as you listen. And you will quite possibly leave feeling enlightened and uplifted ...
01.09.2019 S3, Ep2 How to Fail: Chris Patten This week, my guest is the former politician Chris Patten. It's almost easier to list the high-powered offices of state he hasn't occupied than the ones he has. Patten was the 28th governor of Hong Kong, the former Chairman of ...
01.02.2019 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 singer, songwriter, the recipient of multiple awards, Lily's songs such as Smile and The Fear are observationally crafted ...
11.22.2018 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 of pots of babaganoush) later. In order to mark this momentous occasion, I speak to the legend ...
11.21.2018 S2, Ep8 How to Fail: David Baddiel For the season two finale of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, I speak to David Baddiel: comedian, author and co-writer of the best unofficial football anthem of all time (Three Lions, people). It was an interview that almost didn't ...
11.14.2018 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 quite simply one of the best books I have ever read: profound, moving, unerringly original. It tells the ...
11.07.2018 S2, Ep6 How to Fail: Farrah Storr Farrah Storr, the award-winning editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, is this week's guest on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day and I'm so thrilled to have her on as have basically been stalking her on Instagram for years. In person, she does ...
10.31.2018 S2, Ep5 How to Fail: Alastair Campbell This week How To Fail With Elizabeth Day welcomes Alastair Campbell to the confessional booth. The former spin doctor to Tony Blair (and inspiration for the character of foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It) talks movingly about his ...
10.24.2018 S2, Ep4 How to Fail: Otegha Uwagba This week my guest is writer, podcaster and all-round megawatt woman, Otegha Uwagba. Otegha joins me to talk about her failures at getting a job, dealing with sexism at work, living with depression and why she just can't seem to ...
10.17.2018 S2, Ep3 How to Fail: James Frey This week on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, we're joined by the author James Frey who also just so happens to be my first American guest (hello, USA! I heart you!). Frey has written four critically acclaimed novels, and ...
10.10.2018 S2, Ep2 How to Fail: Mishal Husain The wonderful Mishal Husain joins How To Fail With Elizabeth Day this week, which I'm very excited about because she's basically my long-time woman crush. Husain, who has been presenting Radio 4’s flagship Today programme since 2013 and is also ...
10.03.2018 S2, Ep1 How to Fail: Jessie Burton We're BACK! How To Fail With Elizabeth Day returns for a second season, and to kick this one off, I'm joined by mega-star, besteslling author Jessie Burton. Burton's 2014 debut novel, The Miniaturist, was published in 38 countries and sold ...
08.30.2018 How to Fail: End of Season 1 A thank you from Elizabeth for listening to the first season of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day and a sneak peek of the guests lined up for season two. See you in October! How To Fail is hosted by ...
08.29.2018 S1, Ep8 How to Fail: Elizabeth Day For the last episode of the first season of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, our interviewee is…well…Elizabeth Day. Which means I’m currently writing shownotes about myself in the third person. Which is weird. Let me stop doing that. Over ...

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day episodes:

S7, Ep3 How to Fail: Mabel

S7, Ep2 How to Fail: Malcolm Gladwell

S7, Ep1 How to Fail: Andrew Scott

S6, Ep 8 How to Fail: Jane Garvey

S6, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Lemn Sissay

S6, Ep7 How to Fail: Fearne Cotton

S6, Ep6 How to Fail: George Alagiah

S6, Ep5 How to Fail: Shirlie Kemp

S6, Ep4 How to Fail: Lisa Taddeo

S6, Ep3 How to Fail: Cush Jumbo

S6, Ep2 How to Fail: Alain De Botton

S6, Ep1 How to Fail: Camilla Thurlow

S5 BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Philippa Perry and Sadie Jones

S5, Ep8 How to Fail: Jess Phillips

S5, Ep7 How to Fail: Meera Syal

S5, Ep6 How to Fail: Samin Nosrat

S5, Ep5 How to Fail: Dame Kelly Holmes

S5, Ep4 How to Fail: Francesca Segal

S5, Ep3 How to Fail: Emeli Sandé

S5, Ep2 How To Fail: FLEABAG IS BACK

S5, Ep1 How to Fail: Nigel Slater

S4, Ep8 How to Fail: Jamie Laing

S4, Ep7 How to Fail: Nesrine Malik

S4, Ep6 How to Fail: Andy McNab

S4, Ep5 How to Fail: Charly Cox

S4, Ep4 How to Fail: Mo Gawdat

S4, Ep3 How to Fail: Tracey Thorn

S4, Ep2 How to Fail: John Crace

S4, Ep1 How to Fail: Vicky McClure

S3, Ep9 How to Fail: Haemin Sunim

S3 BONUS EPISODE How to Fail: Kristen Roupenian

S3, Ep8 How to Fail: Pandora Sykes

S3, Ep7 How to Fail: Sharmaine Lovegrove

S3, Ep6 How to Fail: James O'Brien

S3, Ep 5 How to Fail: Raven Smith

S3, Ep4 How to Fail: Deborah Frances-White

S3; Ep3 How to Fail: Jonny Benjamin

S3, Ep2 How to Fail: Chris Patten

S3, Ep1 How to Fail: Lily Allen

How to Fail: End of Season Two

S2, Ep8 How to Fail: David Baddiel

S2, Ep7 How to Fail: Tara Westover

S2, Ep6 How to Fail: Farrah Storr

S2, Ep5 How to Fail: Alastair Campbell

S2, Ep4 How to Fail: Otegha Uwagba

S2, Ep3 How to Fail: James Frey

S2, Ep2 How to Fail: Mishal Husain

S2, Ep1 How to Fail: Jessie Burton

How to Fail: End of Season 1

S1, Ep8 How to Fail: Elizabeth Day

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