Dame Harriet Walter - ‘I wish I’d had all this attention when I was 40’
Olivier and Emmy-award-winning Dame Harriet Walter must have acting in her blood: her uncle is the legendary horror star Christopher Lee, she turned down a place at Oxford in favour of drama school, a...
29 Tammi 202553min
Sharon Horgan - ‘My marriage failed but it had such a positive impact on my life’
Sharon Horgan is a writer, actor and director. She has an uncanny ability to craft complex, compelling and heartfelt characters who find comedy even in the darkest of situations: just like in her hit ...
22 Tammi 202546min
Stephen Merchant: ‘Most famous people are f**cked up’
Actor, writer and director Stephen Merchant joins How To Fail this week and is reflective, fascinating and - yes - even funny. We talk about what he learned from Ricky Gervais when co-writing The Offi...
15 Tammi 202548min
Failure Throwback: Geena Davis
The final episode in our run of throwback episodes is the one and only Geena Davis - this one went out on 9th November 2022. This is what I wrote at the time: I am obsessed with today's guest and I...
8 Tammi 202559min
Failure Throwback: Jamie Dornan
I’m revisiting some of my favourite episodes this Christmas. This week it’s Jamie Dornan, whose episode went out when we were in deepest, darkest lockdown, on 24th November 2020. This is what I wrote ...
1 Tammi 20251h 8min
Failure Throwback: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I’ve hand-picked some of my favourite episodes of all time to revisit this Christmas, so today’s a very special one. Phoebe Waller-Bridge was my first EVER guest on this podcast when I launched in Jul...
25 Joulu 202459min
Sir Chris Hoy - ‘There’s no cure but I still find hope’
It was an honour to record this episode. We overuse words such as ‘hero’ and ‘inspiration’ but Sir Chris Hoy is both. Not only is he one of Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athletes (during a r...
18 Joulu 202454min
Kirsty Young - ‘The great benefit of age? You give less of a f**k.’
When I started How To Fail, I had a list of dream guests. Kirsty Young was on it. Not only because she’s one of the greatest interviewers of all time but also because her style of broadcasting (especi...
11 Joulu 202449min
