Elizabeth Day
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, Gyles talks to Elizabeth Day, host and creator of the hit podcasts How to Fail and Best Friend Therapy, and author of multiple best-selling fiction and non-fiction books, including Magpie, The Party and Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict, which is released in paperback in March 2024. Elizabeth tells Gyles about her childhood, spent near Derry in the north of Ireland; her unhappy years at boarding school; her first job as a 12 year-old newspaper columnist; and her experience of living in a tower block near St. Petersburg in Russia. And Gyles and Elizabeth reminisce about the first time they met, when Elizabeth was only 17. This is fascinating, frank, and warm conversation - thanks so much to Elizabeth for her time, energy and wonderful stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny. |
| 0:04.0 | Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s. |
| 0:08.0 | Tea break. |
| 0:09.0 | Lunt break. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe listen to the outbreak. |
| 0:12.0 | Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right? |
| 0:15.0 | It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nam time go on play some other time |
| 0:22.7 | put your phone down |
| 0:23.9 | Tombollah |
| 0:24.8 | open for fun |
| 0:26.5 | Terms apply 18 plus gamble aware |
| 0:28.8 | org |
| 0:29.4 | No home |
| 0:32.1 | No address |
| 0:34.0 | No address |
| 0:35.6 | No bank account |
| 0:37.1 | no bank account No No bank account. No job. No job. No home. No address. No bank account. No job. No bank account. No job. No home. |
| 0:50.5 | It's time to break the vicious circle. We're working with charities like Shelter to provide a bank account for people who are homeless. |
| 0:58.2 | Search HSBCUK, no fixed address. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello, this is Rosebud. My guest today is the podcaster and writer Elizabeth Day. If you're a podcast enthusiast, |
| 1:31.3 | you'll almost certainly have heard Elizabeth's smash hit series How to Fail, in which she |
| 1:36.4 | interviews famous guests, not about their successes, but about their failures and disappointments. |
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