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Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment · Lifestyle

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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 [email protected]

Episodes

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Anthony Scaramucci - My Biggest Failure? Working For Donald Trump

14 Oct 2026
1h 7m
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Luke Evans, Sarah Solemani & Elizabeth Day: The Making of The Party

12 Oct 2026
38m
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Bonnie Garmus - ‘Adoption Gave Us A Family’

07 Oct 2026
58m
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Russell T Davies - On Dr Who, Grief and Gay Representation on TV

30 Sep 2026
56m
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Sir Paul Smith - ‘People In Fashion Are Insecure’

23 Sep 2026
51m
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Louise O’Neill - ‘Full Recovery Is Possible’

16 Sep 2026
58m
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Nish Kumar - Failure Is Information. Comedians Call It Material.

09 Sep 2026
57m
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Remembering Gloria Steinem

03 Sep 2026
58m
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David Sedaris - ‘My Father Said I Was A Bad Influence Because I Was Gay’

02 Sep 2026
52m
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Failure serves as a catalyst for personal transformation and creative resilience, as demonstrated by humorist David Sedaris. His journey from a college dropout and meth addict to a prolific writer reveals how overcoming early instability and navigating a strained relationship with a critical father shaped his professio...

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Failure Throwback: Mo Gawdat

26 Aug 2026
1h 1m
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Failure Throwback: Phoebe Waller Bridge

19 Aug 2026
51m
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Mel Giedroyc - I Lost My Biggest Fan When Mum Died

12 Aug 2026
58m
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham - ‘I’m a better politician for having failed.’

05 Aug 2026
49m
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Nikita Gill - Everyone Wants to Be Heard But No One Wants to Listen

29 Jul 2026
54m
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Miquita Oliver - I Drank Half a Bottle of Wine Every Morning

22 Jul 2026
57m
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Richard Bacon - ‘I Was Betrayed By My Best Friend’

15 Jul 2026
57m
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Remembering Bonnie Tyler

09 Jul 2026
49m
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Charlie Mackesy – ‘Grief propelled me into work that saved me’

08 Jul 2026
53m
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Anastacia – All My Songs Have Been Good Therapy

01 Jul 2026
54m
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Mel Giedroyc and AJ Odudu on Body Confidence, Midlife Reinvention and Female Friendship

29 Jun 2026
45m
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