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

06 Aug 2025
49m
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Fern Brady - ‘I make more money in comedy than I ever did from stripping‘

30 Jul 2025
46m
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Dorinda Medley on Grief, Identity and The Real Housewives: ‘I was angry. I was lost. I felt like I got cheated.’

23 Jul 2025
45m
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Vanessa Williams - ‘It would be hard to be married to me!’

16 Jul 2025
52m
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Suzi Ruffell - ‘I didn’t know I was gay until I saw Titanic’

10 Jul 2025
49m
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Pamela Anderson - ‘It wasn’t about being pretty, it was about being brave’

07 Jul 2025
52m
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Melinda French Gates - ‘Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean you’re wise’

02 Jul 2025
52m
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Monica Lewinsky - ‘I would have liked a more normal life’

25 Jun 2025
49m
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AJ Tracey - ‘Buying my mum a house will always be my proudest achievement’

18 Jun 2025
52m
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BONUS: How To Cope With A Friendship Break-Up - with Cynthia Nixon

12 Jun 2025
25m
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Cynthia Nixon - ‘I think we're all clumsy and dumb when it comes to things like race’

11 Jun 2025
53m
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Christine McGuinness - ‘I don’t want to hold back anymore - I date women! So what?’

04 Jun 2025
52m
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Vicky Pattison - ‘You don't become old and wise if you haven't been young and daft’

02 Jun 2025
55m
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Dannii Minogue - ‘I hit low points where I thought: “I just can’t take this any more.”

28 May 2025
58m
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Julia Stiles - ‘I struggled with body issues. It’s such a waste of f***ing time’

21 May 2025
55m
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John Bishop - ‘I’ve always wanted someone to say: you’re good enough’

14 May 2025
56m
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Simon Cowell - ‘I often think: what gives me the right to judge people?’

07 May 2025
1h 2m
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Celeste Barber: the FUNNIEST woman on the internet

30 Apr 2025
53m
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Emma Dabiri - ‘We are still so obsessed with how we look’

23 Apr 2025
45m
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Sally Phillips - ‘I saw Colin Firth and thought - he’s mine!’

16 Apr 2025
52m
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