How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Hosted by Elizabeth Day · Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
4.8from 4,563 ratings
- 437
- Episodes
- 216
- Transcribed
- 4,563
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About 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 podcastadsales@sonymusic.com
- Publisher
- Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 13 Jul 2018
- Latest episode
- 4 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
216 of 437 episodes have a transcript.
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Greg Wise - ‘Therapy Saved My Life. And My Marriage.’
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hanif Kureishi - ‘I Write To Stay Alive’
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bill Bailey - ‘Rejection Made Me A Better Performer’
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Greg Wise - ‘Therapy Saved My Life. And My Marriage.’
Published 4 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I suppose it's two questions, really. I wonder whether you've had thoughts about that or whether it's more helpful not to have thoughts about that and whether thoughts about and after physical life are part of being an end of life doula or whether they're deliberately left off the table. […]
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- Greg Wise
- Hanif Kureishi
- Bill Bailey
- Bella Mackie
- Anthony Scaramucci
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,201,054
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 802 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 3,761 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 89 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 100
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Elizabeth Day host the show. Published by Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment.
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