How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things in life that haven’t gone right and what we might learn from them along the way. Every week, Elizabeth’s guest explores three failures, and what these failures have taught them about how to grow and succeed, better.
We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with Elizabeth to share your failures, problems or questions - anonymously or otherwise. She'll go through these each week with the help of her very special guests. And remember: a fail shared is a fail halved. Click here to get...
Recent Episodes
SPECIAL EP: On Fertility and Finding Your Family… with Rebecca Coxon
9 Mar 2026
Toni Laites - Love Island Healed My Toxic Dating Patterns
4 Mar 2026
ON AMBITION… With Gillian Anderson and Munroe Bergdorf
2 Mar 2026
Baz Luhrmann - ‘I self-medicate with creativity’
25 Feb 2026
ON SELF ACCEPTANCE... With Pamela Anderson and Rylan Clark
23 Feb 2026
Jennette McCurdy on Reclaiming Her Voice
18 Feb 2026
ON FAMILY DYNAMICS… With Bella Freud and Danny Dyer
16 Feb 2026
Mo Gilligan - Fatherhood Is A Gift I Didn’t Know I Needed
11 Feb 2026
ON FINDING LOVE AT ANY AGE… With Luke Evans and Dolly Alderton
9 Feb 2026
Shabaz Ali - ‘I’ll be a diversity quota as long as I get paid’
4 Feb 2026
ON FINDING HOPE IN ADVERSITY… With Sir Chris Hoy and Michael Rosen
2 Feb 2026
Golda Rosheuvel - ‘I don’t see my dyslexia as a failure anymore’
28 Jan 2026
ON THE IMPACT OF EARLY FAME… With Shania Twain and Charlotte Church
26 Jan 2026
Martin Freeman - ‘We should be saying no to our kids’
21 Jan 2026
ON PANIC ATTACKS… With Jamie Laing and Fearne Cotton
19 Jan 2026
Marisa Abela - ‘You never expect to be told you have cancer at 23’
14 Jan 2026
ON MEDITATION… With Kirsty Young and Yuval Noah Harari
12 Jan 2026
Margaret Cho - They Told Me I Was Too Fat To Play Myself
7 Jan 2026
ON MONEY WORRIES… With Fern Brady and Simon Cowell
5 Jan 2026
Failure Throwback: Bear Grylls
31 Dec 2025
Sophie Willan - From Foster Care to Alma’s Not Normal
24 Dec 2025
Bella Freud - Learning To Trust Herself
17 Dec 2025
ON FRIENDSHIP… With Dawn French and Vogue Williams
15 Dec 2025
Alex Hassell - Rivals, Rejection and Taking Acid at Alton Towers
10 Dec 2025
ON PERSPECTIVE… With Adeel Akhtar and Pat Cummins
8 Dec 2025
Mo Gawdat - The 3 BIGGEST Mistakes We Make In Finding Love
3 Dec 2025
ON IVF… With Jessel Taank and Paloma Faith
1 Dec 2025
Ruth Wilson - Be Challenged By What Disgusts You
26 Nov 2025
ON REJECTION… With Mel B and Nicole Scherzinger
24 Nov 2025
Michelle Yeoh - On typecasting, fertility and THAT Oscars speech
