How To Date: How to meet someone
Elizabeth and Mel get into the exciting, terrifying and sometimes overwhelming world of how on earth to meet someone. We discuss online dating and IRL encounters and how to navigate it all without los...
10 Feb 202551min
Nick Grimshaw - 'I told The Guardian I was gay before I told my parents'
Broadcaster and author Nick Grimshaw joins Elizabeth to talk about failing his maths GCSE, failing his business and communications degree, his failure to be present, and failing at New Year’s resoluti...
5 Feb 202550min
Introducing How To Date: Am I ready to date?
Elizabeth and Mel look at one of the most important yet daunting questions: “Am I ready to date?” Whether you’re returning to the dating world after divorce, heartbreak, loss or simply wondering if...
3 Feb 202550min
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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 20251h 8min
