Elizabeth Day
speaker
4,919 appearances
33 recordings
8 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 9 Sep
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, yes.
Belinda, I know I'm getting off on a tangent, but we just have to talk about Belinda because that monologue was so seismic for so many women.
And Phoebe was my first ever guest on How to Fail FYI.
She's a very good friend of mine.
And I'm so grateful to you for doing that justice.
And it felt so radical at the time.
Did it also reflect your experience of getting older as a woman in terms of the radicalisation of it?
Yes.
You also recently read an extract from Giselle Pellico's autobiography.
And you've said some very interesting things about male critics not really understanding the depth or nuance of the female experience.
Do you feel that you've become...
Well, thank you for clarifying.
But I definitely feel that I'm becoming more radical as I get older.
Yeah.
Yes.
I mean, this is... Just stuff like that.
Yes.
It's deeply irritating.
And that sense of shame that we were touching upon is so often internalised by women when they go through some sort of medical experience that is so underfunded and under-researched.
And in my personal experience, what I bring to that is the experience of miscarriage or infertility, which I went through.
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