Elizabeth Day
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5,372 appearances
35 recordings
8 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 3d ago
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You did an English degree at Cambridge, but I don't know whether that's helpful or not.
It could be intimidating.
Before we get onto your failures, I wanted to go back to that scene that you opened the book with, where you are filming Detroit.
Yeah.
And I think this displays the power of your writing, because I have been lucky enough to interview a lot of actors, but I suppose I'd never really thought about...
the physical and emotional cost of constantly having to replay a scene for filming purposes.
And you write about this particular scene very powerfully and the impact it has on your body and then how it ends up with you and the events that we're about to explore.
Do you mind just telling that story for us?
And I could so relate to that feeling like a good idea as someone who also has dabbled in... I've had Reiki.
It was great.
And I think you do such a good job of sort of describing each one of the steps, which in isolation doesn't seem that big of a deal until suddenly you're in too deep.
Let's get into it now.
Yeah.
Your first failure, and you prefaced this in such an eloquent email to me, saying that you don't consider these failures.
You wouldn't consider them failures in anyone else.
And you've reframed them, but they felt like failures at the time.
Very much so at the time, yeah.
Your first failure is failing to be happy all the time.
Yes.
Tell us about that.
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