How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment 441 - Louise O’Neill - ‘Full Recovery Is Possible’

Every success story you've ever been told is incomplete. How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is the part they leave out. Each week, Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Elizabeth Day sits down with someone extraordinary - and asks them about the moments that didn’t go according to plan and how these failures shaped them. Kate Winslet on body image. Malala Yousafzai on rewriting her story. Pamela Anderson on refuting shame. Phoebe Waller-Bridge on creativity. Salman Rushdie on survival. Emilia Clarke on fame. What happens when the people you most admire stop performing and start telling the truth? Five hundred episodes in, we're still finding out. With sold-out nights at the London Palladium and Sydney Opera House, millions of listeners worldwide, and a British Podcast Award to its name, How To Fail is one of the UK's most successful podcasts. And yes, we're aware of the irony. Pick an episode. Start anywhere. An Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment production. All guest booking is managed from an official Sony Music email address. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow @sonypodcastsTo bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Episodes

Louise O’Neill - ‘Full Recovery Is Possible’

Nish Kumar - Failure Is Information. Comedians Call It Material.

Remembering Gloria Steinem

David Sedaris - ‘My Father Said I Was A Bad Influence Because I Was Gay’

Failure Throwback: Mo Gawdat

Failure Throwback: Phoebe Waller Bridge

Mel Giedroyc - I Lost My Biggest Fan When Mum Died

Prime Minister Andy Burnham - ‘I’m a better politician for having failed.’

Nikita Gill - Everyone Wants to Be Heard But No One Wants to Listen

Miquita Oliver - I Drank Half a Bottle of Wine Every Morning

Richard Bacon - ‘I Was Betrayed By My Best Friend’

Remembering Bonnie Tyler

Charlie Mackesy – ‘Grief propelled me into work that saved me’

Anastacia – All My Songs Have Been Good Therapy

Mel Giedroyc and AJ Odudu on Body Confidence, Midlife Reinvention and Female Friendship

Kristin Scott Thomas – ‘Having children allowed me to see where I’d gone wrong’

Patrick Radden Keefe - ‘Lying Is More Prevalent Than People Think’

Natalie Imbruglia - ‘I love the wisdom of being in my 50s’

Hannah Murray - ‘Everything Fell Apart’

Emily Atack - ‘I’ve forgiven people for unforgivable things’

Katherine Parkinson – ‘I’m Still Learning How to Be Me’

Emilia Clarke - ‘I’m A Bad Celebrity’

Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

Rita Wilson - ‘I’m 69. I’m At My Most Unfiltered.’

Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Sophie Habboo - I Wish I Had More Boundaries

Elizabeth's New Show: History’s Greatest Fails

Amy Jackson Westwick - I Was A Magnet For Narcissists

ON FINDING THE ONE… With Miranda Hart, Celeste Barber and Glennon Doyle

Chris Appleton - ‘I Felt Shame Before I Felt Love’

Mel Schilling - ‘She was the embodiment of vibrant life’

ON STARTING OVER AFTER GRIEF… With Stanley Tucci and Geri Halliwell-Horner

Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton - ‘We were young and working-class. We were dismissed.’

ON MOTHERHOOD… with Jessie Ware and Francesca Segal

Rosamund Pike - ‘Failure Is Pretending To Be Someone You’re Not’

SPECIAL EP: On Fertility and Finding Your Family… with Rebecca Coxon

Toni Laites - Love Island Healed My Toxic Dating Patterns

ON AMBITION… With Gillian Anderson and Munroe Bergdorf

Baz Luhrmann - ‘I self-medicate with creativity’

ON SELF ACCEPTANCE... With Pamela Anderson and Rylan Clark

Jennette McCurdy on Reclaiming Her Voice

ON FAMILY DYNAMICS… With Bella Freud and Danny Dyer

Mo Gilligan - Fatherhood Is A Gift I Didn’t Know I Needed

ON FINDING LOVE AT ANY AGE… With Luke Evans and Dolly Alderton

Shabaz Ali - ‘I’ll be a diversity quota as long as I get paid’

ON FINDING HOPE IN ADVERSITY… With Sir Chris Hoy and Michael Rosen

Golda Rosheuvel - ‘I don’t see my dyslexia as a failure anymore’

ON THE IMPACT OF EARLY FAME… With Shania Twain and Charlotte Church

Martin Freeman - ‘We should be saying no to our kids’