

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


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

Dorinda Medley on Grief, Identity and The Real Housewives: ‘I was angry. I was lost. I felt like I got cheated.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

BONUS: How To Cope With A Friendship Break-Up - with Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon - ‘I think we're all clumsy and dumb when it comes to things like race’

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

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

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

Julia Stiles - ‘I struggled with body issues. It’s such a waste of f***ing time’

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

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

Celeste Barber: the FUNNIEST woman on the internet

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

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