How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Every success story you've ever been told is incomplete. How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is the part they leave out. Each week, Sunday Times #1 bestselling auth...

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Sir Paul Smith - ‘People In Fashion Are Insecure’ Elizabeth Day, Amy Dempsey Raven · 4 days ago

Louise O’Neill - ‘Full Recovery Is Possible’ 59 min · Elizabeth Day, Amy Dempsey Raven · 11 days ago

Nish Kumar - Failure Is Information. Comedians Call It Material. 56 min · Elizabeth Day, Amy Dempsey Raven · 18 days ago

Remembering Gloria Steinem 57 min · Elizabeth Day, Amy Dempsey Raven · 24 days ago

David Sedaris - ‘My Father Said I Was A Bad Influence Because I Was Gay’ 51 min · Elizabeth Day · 25 days ago

Failure Throwback: Mo Gawdat 1 h 00 min · Elizabeth Day · Aug 26

Failure Throwback: Phoebe Waller Bridge 51 min · Elizabeth Day, Molly Sims · Aug 19

Mel Giedroyc - I Lost My Biggest Fan When Mum Died 58 min · Elizabeth Day · Aug 12

Prime Minister Andy Burnham - ‘I’m a better politician for having failed.’ 46 min · Andy Burnham, Elizabeth Day · Aug 5

Nikita Gill - Everyone Wants to Be Heard But No One Wants to Listen 53 min · Nikita Gill, Elizabeth Day, Simon Mayo · Jul 29

Miquita Oliver - I Drank Half a Bottle of Wine Every Morning 59 min · Miquita Oliver, Elizabeth Day, Rachel Brown · Jul 22

Richard Bacon - ‘I Was Betrayed By My Best Friend’ 58 min · Richard Bacon, Elizabeth Day, Simon Mayo · Jul 15

Remembering Bonnie Tyler 49 min · Bonnie Tyler, Elizabeth Day, Ad read narrator / Promo voice · Jul 9

Charlie Mackesy – ‘Grief propelled me into work that saved me’ Charlie Mackesy, Elizabeth Day · Jul 8

Anastacia – All My Songs Have Been Good Therapy Elizabeth Day, Molly Sims, Jonathan Van Ness · Jul 1

Mel Giedroyc and AJ Odudu on Body Confidence, Midlife Reinvention and Female Friendship 45 min · Mel Giedroyc, Elizabeth Day, AJ Odudu · Jun 29

Kristin Scott Thomas – ‘Having children allowed me to see where I’d gone wrong’ 54 min · Kristin Scott Thomas, Elizabeth Day, Yo-Ai Shaw · Jun 24

Patrick Radden Keefe - ‘Lying Is More Prevalent Than People Think’ 56 min · Elizabeth Day · Jun 17

Natalie Imbruglia - ‘I love the wisdom of being in my 50s’ 52 min · Natalie Imbruglia, Elizabeth Day, Unknown · Jun 10

Hannah Murray - ‘Everything Fell Apart’ 1 h 00 min · Hannah Murray, Elizabeth Day, Unknown · Jun 3

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Hosts

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Charts

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#192 Society & Culture · United States

🇬🇧 #2 · 🇮🇪 #2 · 🇳🇿 #13 · 🇫🇮 #17 · 🇮🇩 #18 · 🇦🇺 #19 · 🇰🇷 #29 · 🇮🇹 #30 · 🇨🇱 #40 · 🇧🇪 #43 · +20 more

charted in 31 countriesFull rankings →

Activity

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5 episodes · last 30 days · avg 53 min

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Episodes per week over the last six months.

About

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Every success story you've ever been told is incomplete. How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is the part they leave out. Each week, Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Elizabeth Day sits down with someone extraordinary - and asks them about the moments that didn’t go according to plan and how these failures shaped them.  Kate Winslet on body image. Malala Yousafzai on rewriting her story. Pamel...

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Rankings

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As of 2026-09-28, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day ranks #57 on Apple Podcasts in Ireland, and appears on charts in 3 countries.

Ranking over time

Overall chart position, last 90 days · lower is better

Where it charts

Current overall position by country · categories in 🇮🇪 Ireland as of 2026-09-28

🇮🇪 Ireland #57 🇬🇧 United Kingdom #70 🇳🇿 New Zealand #197 Society & Culture #10 Apple

Chart records

First charted2025-08-20

Best ever#6 on Apple Podcasts (United Kingdom) · 2026-07-24

Days on chart384

Countries now3

CategoriesSociety & Culture

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