Miranda Hart - 'I always knew I’d get married at 51'
It’s been ten years of ‘bear with.. bear with’ but *finally* we’ve got our beloved Miranda Hart back. Due to a long-term undiagnosed chronic illness (which we talk about, of course) Miranda has been l...
16 Loka 202456min
Neneh Cherry - ‘My mother’s death undid me.’
If you’d told the 12-year-old me, listening to Manchild and Buffalo Stance on repeat at school in Belfast, that I would one day be interviewing Neneh Cherry, I wouldn’t have believed you. This woman i...
9 Loka 202443min
Rupert Everett - 'Everyone is my Professional Nemesis'
Rupert Everett is the best type of A-list guest. He’s been through the highs and the lows of fame and come out of the other side wiser, stronger, and with no qualms about speaking his mind. Plus hi...
2 Loka 202449min
Yuval Noah Harari - ‘AI doesn't have to end badly for humankind’
Well, look, of COURSE I was intimidated. Yuval Noah Harari is one of our most revered thinkers - a philosopher for our age and a bestselling writer of books that have redefined our thinking about huma...
25 Syys 202454min
Diane Abbott - ‘I’ve never had a nice chat with Keir Starmer’
Diane Abbott is a force of nature - and she needs to be, with so much vitriol directed towards her. She has weathered decades of racist and sexist abuse but has still blazed a trail through British po...
18 Syys 202450min
Kate Winslet - ‘I remember thinking: I do not want to be famous’
Look, I don’t like to brag but in case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve got Kate Winslet on How To Fail this week. ACTUAL KATE WINSLET! The one and only! And oh my goodness, what an incredible guest she is:...
11 Syys 202455min
Agony Uncle Salman Rushdie – ‘I walked into a glass door and fell in love’
This is a very special one-off edition of How to Fail, where I bring you a peek behind the paywall to hear one of my favourite subscriber editions of ‘Failing with Friends’. If you’re not already a su...
4 Syys 202423min
Ellie Simmonds - Being different is a superpower.
Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds OBE has won five - count ‘em - Gold Medals. Amazingly, her first two were at the age of 13 and she’s set two world records. But she happily admits she learned more ‘f...
28 Elo 202443min
