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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment

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How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things in life that haven’t gone right and what we might learn from them along the way. Every week, Elizabeth’s guest explores three failures, and what these failures have taught them about how to grow and succeed, better.We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with Elizabeth to share your failures, problems or questions - anonymously or otherwise. She'll go through these each week with the help of her very special guests. And reme...

Episodes (377)

Denise Welch - I Got Sober For Love

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Oct 22, 202559:28pending

ON SCHOOL… With Jamie Dornan and Bernie Sanders

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Oct 19, 202518:19pending

Charlotte Church - ‘I was totally exploited. I was a commodity’

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Oct 15, 202545:48pending

ON BABY LOSS… With Sara Pascoe and Trinny Woodall

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Oct 12, 202528:11pending

Stephen Grosz - ‘Real love is going to hurt’

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Oct 8, 202552:23pending

Jilly Cooper: On Failure, Love and Literature

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Oct 6, 202538:07pending

ON NAVIGATING YOUR 20s... With Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Lily Allen

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Oct 5, 202517:15pending

Jane Goodall on Optimism, Hope and Conservation

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Oct 2, 20251:00:28pending

Letitia Wright - ‘I was bullied… now I’m Black Panther’

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Oct 1, 202552:54pending

ON ADDICTION... With Mae Martin and Marian Keyes

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Sep 28, 202516:29pending

Joe Locke - ‘At 20, I Felt Like I Was Already 35’

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Sep 24, 202546:20pending

ON WRITING... With Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro

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Sep 21, 202524:18pending

Mark Ronson - The Stories Behind ‘Uptown Funk,’ Amy Winehouse & ‘I’m Just Ken’

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Sep 17, 202550:59pending

ON GRIEF… With Mo Gawdat and Bonnie Tyler

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Sep 14, 202513:28pending

Robin Wright on ageing, confidence and the myth of being ‘too late’

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Sep 10, 202549:50pending

ON HEARTBREAK... With Alain de Botton and Jay Shetty

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Sep 7, 202515:17pending

Tom Ellis - Fatherhood, Surrogacy and Years of Therapy

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Sep 3, 202549:40pending

Failure Throwback: Jameela Jamil

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Aug 27, 202558:34pending

Failure Throwback: Glennon Doyle

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Aug 20, 20251:07:01pending

Failure Throwback: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Aug 13, 20251:08:02pending

Sir Tony Robinson - ‘I learned comedy as a defence mechanism’

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Aug 6, 202549:45pending

Fern Brady - ‘I make more money in comedy than I ever did from stripping‘

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Jul 30, 202544:23pending

Dorinda Medley on Grief, Identity and The Real Housewives: ‘I was angry. I was l...

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Jul 23, 202543:33pending

Vanessa Williams - ‘It would be hard to be married to me!’

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Jul 16, 202550:33pending

Suzi Ruffell - ‘I didn’t know I was gay until I saw Titanic’

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Jul 10, 202547:35pending

Pamela Anderson - ‘It wasn’t about being pretty, it was about being brave’

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Jul 7, 202552:42pending

Melinda French Gates - ‘Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean you’re wise’

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Jul 2, 202550:25pending

Monica Lewinsky - ‘I would have liked a more normal life’

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Jun 25, 202547:50pending

AJ Tracey - ‘Buying my mum a house will always be my proudest achievement’

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Jun 18, 202550:48pending

How To Cope With A Friendship Break-Up - with Cynthia Nixon - Special Release

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Jun 12, 202527:28pending

Cynthia Nixon - ‘Being brave is feeling scared and doing it anyway’

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Jun 11, 202551:44pending

Christine McGuinness - ‘I don’t want to hold back anymore - I date women! So wha...

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Jun 4, 202550:31pending

Vicky Pattison - ‘You don't become old and wise if you haven't been young and da...

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Jun 2, 202555:32pending

Dannii Minogue - ‘I hit low points where I thought: “I just can’t take this any...

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May 28, 202556:33pending

Julia Stiles - ‘I ran in the other direction from fame’

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May 21, 202553:26pending

John Bishop - ‘I’ve always wanted someone to say: you’re good enough’

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May 14, 202554:44pending

Simon Cowell - ‘I often think: what gives me the right to judge people?’

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May 7, 202559:58pending

Celeste Barber: the FUNNIEST woman on the internet

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Apr 30, 202551:37pending

Emma Dabiri - ‘We are still so obsessed with how we look’

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Apr 23, 202543:00pending

Sally Phillips - ‘I saw Colin Firth and thought - he’s mine!’

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Apr 16, 202550:20pending

Mae Martin - 'Everything I do is about proving those high school bullies wrong.'

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Apr 9, 202551:01pending

Jonathan Van Ness - 'I was one wrong thing away from losing everything'

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Apr 2, 202548:13pending

How To Date: BONUS EPISODE - Your dating questions answered…

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Mar 31, 202539:49pending

Sam Ryder - ‘Fame is like giving a dog a treat every single day. You get used to...

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Mar 26, 202553:13pending

How To Date: The most important relationship you’ll ever have

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Mar 24, 202557:48pending

Olivia Attwood - ‘It’s either vodka and a gay club until 5am, or hyperbaric oxyg...

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Mar 19, 202548:48pending

How To Date: How to cope with heartbreak and rejection

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Mar 17, 202544:43pending

Erin Doherty - ‘Lean Into Your Truth’

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Mar 12, 202545:41pending

How To Date: Taking it to the next level

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Mar 10, 202549:15pending

Gugu Mbatha-Raw - ‘Have I ever worked with an awful co-star? Maybe one or two’

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Mar 5, 202546:02pending
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