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 manag

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Every guest on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

324 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Henry Holland

   SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Henry Holland on business failure in the time of Covid-19 · Apr 2020

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   Holly Willoughby

   S12, BONUS EPISODE How to Fail: Holly Willoughby · Nov 2021

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   James Frey

   S2, Ep3 How to Fail: James Frey · Oct 2018

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   Jane Garvey

   S6, Ep 8 How to Fail: Jane Garvey · Nov 2019

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   Jen Gunter

   Dr. Jen Gunter - Patriarchy, periods and penile failure · Apr 2024

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   Jessel Taank

   ON IVF… With Jessel Taank and Paloma Faith · 2 episodes

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   Jessie Burton

   S2, Ep1 How to Fail: Jessie Burton · Oct 2018

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   Jessie Ware

   ON MOTHERHOOD… with Jessie Ware and Francesca Segal · 2 episodes

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   Jim Down

   S10, Ep6 How to Fail: Jim Down · Mar 2021

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    Jo Elvin

    S15, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Jo Elvin, the charity CEO on resilience, friendship fails and female anger · Nov 2022

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    John Crace

    S4, Ep2 How to Fail: John Crace · Apr 2019

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    Jonny Benjamin

    S3; Ep3 How to Fail: Jonny Benjamin · Jan 2019

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    Julia Stiles

    Julia Stiles - ‘I ran in the other direction from fame’ · May 2025

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    Justin Basini

    S15, Ep12 How To Fail: Justin Basini, the Clearscore CEO on business failure, body image and friendship · Nov 2022

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    Katie Price

    Katie Price - ‘Everything bad that’s ever happened to me is because of men’ · Mar 2024

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    Kelly Brook

    Kelly Brook - I’m In My Don’t Give A Damn Era! · Nov 2025

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    Kit de Waal

    S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Kit de Waal · Jul 2022

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    Kristen Roupenian

    S3 BONUS EPISODE How to Fail: Kristen Roupenian · Feb 2019

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    Lashana Lynch

    Lashana Lynch - ‘I didn’t know when I was auditioning that I was going to be 007’ · Nov 2024

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    Leanne Hainsby

    SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Leanne Hainsby · Dec 2020

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    Letitia Wright

    Letitia Wright - ‘I was bullied… now I’m Black Panther’ · Oct 2025

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    Louise Thompson

    Louise Thompson - ‘I asked myself: Am I alive?’ · May 2024

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    Lucy Spraggan

    S17, BONUS EPISODE: Lucy Spraggan on survival, sobriety and staying true to herself · Jul 2023

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    Mae Muller

    S17, Ep9 Mae Muller on failing to win Eurovision - but finding her voice · Jun 2023

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    Margaret Cho

    Margaret Cho - They Told Me I Was Too Fat To Play Myself · Jan 2026

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    Marisa Abela

    Marisa Abela - ‘You never expect to be told you have cancer at 23’ · Jan 2026

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    Martine Wright

    ON BODY IMAGE… With Martine Wright and Paloma Faith · 2 episodes

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    Matt Haig

    S10, Ep2 How to Fail: Matt Haig · Feb 2021

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    Meg Mason

    S12, Ep8 How to Fail: Meg Mason · Oct 2021

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    Mel Schilling

    Mel Schilling - ‘She was the embodiment of vibrant life’ · 2 episodes

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    Mishal Husain

    S2, Ep2 How to Fail: Mishal Husain · Oct 2018

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    Mohsin Zaidi

    S9, Ep2 How to Fail: Mohsin Zaidi · Sep 2020

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    Natalie Imbruglia

    Natalie Imbruglia - ‘I love the wisdom of being in my 50s’ · Jun 2026

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    Natasha Brown

    S14, Ep4 How To Fail: Natasha Brown · Jun 2022

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    Natasha Hamilton

    Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton - ‘We were young and working-class. We were dismissed.’ · Mar 2026

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    Nesrine Malik

    S4, Ep7 How to Fail: Nesrine Malik · May 2019

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    Nigel Morris

    The F-Word Miniseries: Nigel Morris on leaving school at 15 and becoming a billionaire · Aug 2023

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    Nihal Arthanayake

    S15, Ep7 How To Fail: Nihal Arthanayake on fatherhood, chicken bongs and the most difficult conversation he's ever had · Oct 2022

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    Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill - Everyone Wants to Be Heard But No One Wants to Listen · Jul 2026

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    Olivia Attwood

    Olivia Attwood - ‘It’s either vodka and a gay club until 5am, or hyperbaric oxygen’ · Mar 2025

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