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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, 411 episodes. Page 1 of 5.

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Sue Perkins - “My Late ADHD Diagnosis Changed My Life”

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Greg Wise - ‘Therapy Saved My Life. And My Marriage.’

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Hanif Kureishi - ‘I Write To Stay Alive’

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Bill Bailey - ‘Rejection Made Me A Better Performer’

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Bella Mackie - ‘I Will Never “Fix” My Mental Health’

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Anthony Scaramucci - My Biggest Failure? Working For Donald Trump

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Luke Evans, Sarah Solemani & Elizabeth Day: The Making of The Party

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Bonnie Garmus - ‘Adoption Gave Us A Family’

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Russell T Davies - On Dr Who, Grief and Gay Representation on TV

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Sir Paul Smith - ‘People In Fashion Are Insecure’

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Louise O’Neill - ‘Full Recovery Is Possible’

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Nish Kumar - Failure Is Information. Comedians Call It Material.

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Remembering Gloria Steinem

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David Sedaris - ‘My Father Said I Was A Bad Influence Because I Was Gay’

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Failure Throwback: Mo Gawdat

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Failure Throwback: Phoebe Waller Bridge

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Mel Giedroyc - I Lost My Biggest Fan When Mum Died

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

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Nikita Gill - Everyone Wants to Be Heard But No One Wants to Listen

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Miquita Oliver - I Drank Half a Bottle of Wine Every Morning

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Richard Bacon - ‘I Was Betrayed By My Best Friend’

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Remembering Bonnie Tyler

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Charlie Mackesy – ‘Grief propelled me into work that saved me’

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Anastacia – All My Songs Have Been Good Therapy

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Mel Giedroyc and AJ Odudu on Body Confidence, Midlife Reinvention and Female Friendship

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Kristin Scott Thomas – ‘Having children allowed me to see where I’d gone wrong’

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Patrick Radden Keefe - ‘Lying Is More Prevalent Than People Think’

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Natalie Imbruglia - ‘I love the wisdom of being in my 50s’

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Hannah Murray - ‘Everything Fell Apart’

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Emily Atack - ‘I’ve forgiven people for unforgivable things’

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Katherine Parkinson – ‘I’m Still Learning How to Be Me’

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Emilia Clarke - ‘I’m A Bad Celebrity’

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Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

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Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

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Rita Wilson - ‘I’m 69. I’m At My Most Unfiltered.’

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Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

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Sophie Habboo - I Wish I Had More Boundaries

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Elizabeth's New Show: History’s Greatest Fails
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Amy Jackson Westwick - I Was A Magnet For Narcissists

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ON FINDING THE ONE… With Miranda Hart, Celeste Barber and Glennon Doyle

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Chris Appleton - ‘I Felt Shame Before I Felt Love’

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Mel Schilling - ‘She was the embodiment of vibrant life’

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ON STARTING OVER AFTER GRIEF… With Stanley Tucci and Geri Halliwell-Horner

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Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton - ‘We were young and working-class. We were dismissed.’

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ON MOTHERHOOD… with Jessie Ware and Francesca Segal

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

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SPECIAL EP: On Fertility and Finding Your Family… with Rebecca Coxon

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Toni Laites - Love Island Healed My Toxic Dating Patterns

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ON AMBITION… With Gillian Anderson and Munroe Bergdorf

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Baz Luhrmann - ‘I self-medicate with creativity’

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ON SELF ACCEPTANCE... With Pamela Anderson and Rylan Clark

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Jennette McCurdy on Reclaiming Her Voice

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ON FAMILY DYNAMICS… With Bella Freud and Danny Dyer

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Mo Gilligan - Fatherhood Is A Gift I Didn’t Know I Needed

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ON FINDING LOVE AT ANY AGE… With Luke Evans and Dolly Alderton

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Shabaz Ali - ‘I’ll be a diversity quota as long as I get paid’

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ON FINDING HOPE IN ADVERSITY… With Sir Chris Hoy and Michael Rosen

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Golda Rosheuvel - ‘I don’t see my dyslexia as a failure anymore’

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ON THE IMPACT OF EARLY FAME… With Shania Twain and Charlotte Church

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Martin Freeman - ‘We should be saying no to our kids’

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ON PANIC ATTACKS… With Jamie Laing and Fearne Cotton

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Marisa Abela - ‘You never expect to be told you have cancer at 23’

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ON MEDITATION… With Kirsty Young and Yuval Noah Harari

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Margaret Cho - They Told Me I Was Too Fat To Play Myself

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ON MONEY WORRIES… With Fern Brady and Simon Cowell

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Failure Throwback: Bear Grylls

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Sophie Willan - From Foster Care to Alma’s Not Normal

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Bella Freud - Learning To Trust Herself

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ON FRIENDSHIP… With Dawn French and Vogue Williams
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Alex Hassell - Rivals, Rejection and Taking Acid at Alton Towers

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ON PERSPECTIVE… With Adeel Akhtar and Pat Cummins

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Mo Gawdat - The 3 BIGGEST Mistakes We Make In Finding Love

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ON IVF… With Jessel Taank and Paloma Faith

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Ruth Wilson - Be Challenged By What Disgusts You

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ON REJECTION… With Mel B and Nicole Scherzinger

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Michelle Yeoh - On typecasting, fertility and THAT Oscars speech

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ON PARENTING…with Andy Cohen and Caitlin Moran

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Kelly Brook -  I’m In My Don’t Give A Damn Era!

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ON REALITY TV… With Dorinda Medley and Captain Sandy

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Malala Yousafzai - I Am Not Who You Think I Am

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ON EMBARRASSING MOMENTS… With Dan Levy and Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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Jon Bon Jovi - Fame is a liar and a thief

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ON BODY IMAGE… With Martine Wright and Paloma Faith

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Denise Welch - I Got Sober For Love

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ON SCHOOL… With Jamie Dornan and Bernie Sanders

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Charlotte Church - ‘I was totally exploited. I was a commodity’

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ON BABY LOSS… With Sara Pascoe and Trinny Woodall

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Stephen Grosz - ‘Real love is going to hurt’

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Jilly Cooper: On Failure, Love and Literature

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ON NAVIGATING YOUR 20s... With Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Lily Allen

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Jane Goodall on Optimism, Hope and Conservation

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Letitia Wright - ‘I was bullied… now I’m Black Panther’

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ON ADDICTION... With Mae Martin and Marian Keyes

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Joe Locke - ‘At 20, I Felt Like I Was Already 35’

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ON WRITING... With Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro

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Mark Ronson - The Stories Behind ‘Uptown Funk,’ Amy Winehouse & ‘I’m Just Ken’

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ON GRIEF… With Mo Gawdat and Bonnie Tyler

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Robin Wright on ageing, confidence and the myth of being ‘too late’

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ON HEARTBREAK... With Alain de Botton and Jay Shetty

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Tom Ellis - Fatherhood, Surrogacy and Years of Therapy

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