Elizabeth Day

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5,107 appearances 34 recordings 8 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 16 Sep

Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 33 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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Where are most of your friends from if they're not from the business?

Let's get on to your failures.

There's so much more I could ask you about, but let's hope they come up as part of your failures.

Your first failure is your first ever film.

So at this time, you've gone to France as an au pair, you've restarted your training as an actress.

You get a part in a French play and that gets you an audition.

Was he mesmeric in his charisma?

Did it teach you how to deal with fame when later you became famous?

I want to come back to Prince and Under the Cherry Moon, the movie that you did together, but I'm intrigued as to...

Your take on what fame is and whether you find it boring Yeah, do I think it's boring?

Is there a character in the lexicon of characters that you've played that feels to you that it speaks most to your soul?

Oh, Fleabag.

Fleabag.

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?

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