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 Dec 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 Dec 202449min
Luke Evans - ‘If I didn’t have to take my top off on a movie set, I’d let myself go’
Lovely, lovely, LOVELY Luke Evans. I think he’s quite possibly one of the nicest men in Hollywood - a bona fide A-Lister after star turns in Beauty and the Beast, The Hobbit, Fast & Furious, to name b...
27 Nov 202455min
Andy Cohen - ‘Madonna says I’m a trouble-making queen’
Andy Cohen doesn’t just shape the culture. He is the culture. And if you think I was excited-slash-terrified to interview a man who means so much to me (despite us never having met until this moment) ...
20 Nov 202450min
Ella Purnell - ‘Therapy changed my life’
TW: self-harm You might know Ella from her leading roles in the hit TV show ‘Yellowjackets’ or Amazon Prime’s ‘Fallout’. She’s been acting since she was a child (and is still absurdly young tbf) an...
13 Nov 202441min
Lashana Lynch - ‘I didn’t know when I was auditioning that I was going to be 007’
Lashana Lynch has had a pretty incredible few years: she was the first ever Black female agent with a licence to kill in the James Bond franchise, played a ferocious warrior (and performed her own stu...
6 Nov 202447min
Jilly Cooper - ‘What’s a dick pic?’
Dame Jilly Cooper. What a legend. For the uninitiated (where have you been?) she’s a journalist and author most famous for her bestselling Rutshire Chronicle series which includes Riders, Polo and Riv...
30 Okt 202437min
James Blunt - ‘The Iraq war lost me my GRAMMYS’
TW: miscarriage and pregnancy loss You’ll probably have heard of James Blunt. And if you haven’t, you’ve almost definitely heard his most famous song, You’re Beautiful. There was a time in the earl...
23 Okt 202449min
