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

11 Mar 2026
57m
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Rosamund Pike, the Oscar-nominated actress, joins "How To Fail" to discuss her personal and professional setbacks, revealing insights about her approach to failure and success. Pike reflects on a career-threatening film, "Doom," and her unexpected fame in China as the "fart lady" due to a viral Graham Norton clip. She ...

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On Fertility and Finding Your Family… with Rebecca Coxon

09 Mar 2026
41m
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Toni Laites - Love Island Healed My Toxic Dating Patterns

04 Mar 2026
54m
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ON AMBITION… With GILLIAN ANDERSON AND MUNROE BERGDORF

02 Mar 2026
12m
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Baz Luhrmann - ‘I self-medicate with creativity’

25 Feb 2026
50m
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ON SELF ACCEPTANCE... With Pamela Anderson and Rylan Clark

23 Feb 2026
23m
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Jennette McCurdy on Reclaiming Her Voice

18 Feb 2026
57m
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ON FAMILY DYNAMICS… With Bella Freud and Danny Dyers

16 Feb 2026
21m
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Mo Gilligan - Fatherhood Is A Gift I Didn’t Know I Needed

11 Feb 2026
52m
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ON FINDING LOVE AT ANY AGE… With Luke Evans and Dolly Alderton

09 Feb 2026
28m
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Shabaz Ali - ‘I’ll be a diversity quota as long as I get paid’

04 Feb 2026
49m
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ON FINDING HOPE IN ADVERSITY… With Sir Chris Hoy and Michael Rosen

02 Feb 2026
19m
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Golda Rosheuvel - ‘I don’t see my dyslexia as a failure anymore’

28 Jan 2026
53m
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ON THE IMPACT OF EARLY FAME… With Shania Twain and Charlotte Church

26 Jan 2026
31m
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Martin Freeman - ‘We should be saying no to our kids’

21 Jan 2026
53m
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ON PANIC ATTACKS… With Jamie Laing and Fearne Cotton

19 Jan 2026
16m
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Marisa Abela - ‘You never expect to be told you have cancer at 23’

14 Jan 2026
53m
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On Failed Meditation

12 Jan 2026
15m
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Margaret Cho - They Told Me I Was Too Fat To Play Myself

07 Jan 2026
54m
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ON MONEY WORRIES… With Fern Brady and Simon Cowell

05 Jan 2026
14m
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