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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]

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Miquita Oliver - I Drank Half a Bottle of Wine Every Morning
Katherine Parkinson – ‘I’m Still Learning How to Be Me’
Jennette McCurdy on Reclaiming Her Voice
Mo Gilligan - Fatherhood Is A Gift I Didn’t Know I Needed
Shabaz Ali - ‘I’ll be a diversity quota as long as I get paid’
Marisa Abela - ‘You never expect to be told you have cancer at 23’
Margaret Cho - They Told Me I Was Too Fat To Play Myself
Failure Throwback: Bear Grylls
Sophie Willan - From Foster Care to Alma’s Not Normal
S6, Ep2 How to Fail: Alain De Botton
Alex Hassell - Rivals, Rejection and Taking Acid at Alton Towers
Michelle Yeoh - On typecasting, fertility and THAT Oscars speech
Kelly Brook -  I’m In My Don’t Give A Damn Era!
Malala Yousafzai - I Am Not Who You Think I Am
Charlotte Church - ‘I was totally exploited. I was a commodity’
Stephen Grosz - ‘Real love is going to hurt’
Letitia Wright - ‘I was bullied… now I’m Black Panther’
Joe Locke - ‘At 20, I Felt Like I Was Already 35’
Mark Ronson - The Stories Behind ‘Uptown Funk,’ Amy Winehouse & ‘I’m Just Ken’
Robin Wright on ageing, confidence and the myth of being ‘too late’
Tom Ellis - Fatherhood, Surrogacy and Years of Therapy
Failure Throwback: Jameela Jamil
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!’
Jessel Taank - ‘Real Housewives? It’s like Game of Thrones’
How To Date: How to meet someone
Luke Evans - ‘If I didn’t have to take my top off on a movie set, I’d let myself go’
Andy Cohen - ‘Madonna says I’m a trouble-making queen’
Lashana Lynch - ‘I didn’t know when I was auditioning that I was going to be 007’
James Blunt - ‘The Iraq war lost me my GRAMMYS’
Miranda Hart - 'I always knew I’d get married at 51'
Neneh Cherry - ‘My mother’s death undid me.’
Rupert Everett - 'Everyone is my Professional Nemesis'
YUVAL NOAH HARARI - ‘AI doesn't have to end badly for humankind’
Diane Abbott - ‘I’ve never had a nice chat with Keir Starmer’
Kate Winslet - ‘I remember thinking: I do not want to be famous’
Ellie Simmonds - Being different is a superpower.
Elif Shafak - ‘There’s only one thing that scares me - and that’s indifference’
Danny O’Donoghue - ‘Lean into every feeling’
Sara Cox - ‘So much good has come from the bad things that have happened to me'
Jesse Tyler Ferguson - ‘I was caught stealing gay porn'
Sadiq Khan - ‘Had I known what it involved, I can’t say I’d have gone into politics’
Vogue Williams - ‘I love therapy’
Salman Rushdie - ‘I’d rather have had a different life’
S20, Ep 20 Salman Rushdie - ‘I’d rather have had a different life’
S20, Ep18 Shania Twain - ‘There is no man that intimidates me’
S20, Ep17 Dame Arlene Phillips - ‘I know the power of love’
S20, Ep15 Bonnie Tyler - Her first ever podcast interview
S20, Ep14 Will Young - ‘I like to talk about it because I survived it’
S20, Ep13 Richard Osman on cats, crime and c**ts
S20, Ep12 Dr. Jen Gunter - Patriarchy, periods and penile failure
S20, Ep11 Adeel Akhtar - The importance of staying true to yourself
S18, Ep10 Claudia Winkleman on the joy of imperfection
S18, Ep9 Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock: one of Britain's foremost space scientists on belonging and the meaning of life

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