Elizabeth Day
Changes with Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Changes is back for a new year and kicking off with an emotional and inspirational conversation with award winning journalist, broadcaster and author Elizabeth Day.
From the outside Elizabeth Day’s career has been an indisputable success story, a double first in history at Cambridge, a British Press Award for Young Journalist of the Year in 2004, endless writing credits and five novels. But it’s her podcast How To Fail and her memoir How To Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong and Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong that have ironically been her biggest successes.
Elizabeth talks us through her biggest changes, from a move to Northern Ireland at the age of 4 and her troubles fitting in with an English accent in school there, to her divorce in her late thirties and her struggles with trying to have a baby.
All of these things changed her sense of self and they way she looked at the world. And in that way that change can, she was able to do things differently as a result of them. How To Fail was her reaction to her own personal failures and has been a huge success as a podcast. And her latest novel Magpie, is borne out of Elizabeth wanting a book to exist in the world that tells the story of those women who struggle with infertility. The result is a thrilling, unique, and at times, heart wrenching novel. Elizabeth is remarkably open and articulate in talking about her IVFs and her miscarriages here, in a way that so many women will relate to and will find comforting and constructive. We thank her! And hope that you enjoy this episode.
You can buy Magpie and any of Elizabeth’s previous books here:
https://www.elizabethdayonline.co.uk/books
You can listen to How To Fail, the podcast here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-fail-with-elizabeth-day/id1407451189
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Changes, it's me, Annie McManus. |
| 0:12.6 | It is so good to be back with a whole new host of conversations about change for a whole |
| 0:17.7 | new year. |
| 0:18.7 | I trust you're well, if you're new to the podcast, it's all in the title. |
| 0:23.1 | We base the conversations around the word change and we ask each of our guests about |
| 0:27.6 | the biggest changes that have rocked their lives in childhood and in adulthood. |
| 0:32.8 | And also the changes they would still like to make for their own lives or the world around |
| 0:36.6 | them moving forwards. |
| 0:38.4 | I have found them incredibly, incredibly rewarding and it's so lovely to know that you guys are |
| 0:44.9 | enjoying them too. |
| 0:45.9 | If you ever want to get in touch and suggest guests for this podcast to tell me anything |
| 0:51.2 | about how you feel about the conversations you've heard, please do, you can hit me up |
| 0:55.5 | on Instagram, I'm on there as Annie McManus. |
| 0:59.4 | Let's begin a whole new series of changes with our first guest. |
| 1:04.0 | From the outside Elizabeth Day has an indisputable success story. |
| 1:09.4 | She is a manifestation of hard work and remarkable cleverness, everything she has done she has |
| 1:15.4 | excelled at and not just excelled, but one accolades for. |
| 1:19.9 | Elizabeth Day is an award-winning journalist and author and broadcaster. |
| 1:26.2 | She got a double first in history at Cambridge University and then in her early 20s she |
| 1:30.6 | won a British press award for young journalists of the year. |
| 1:34.0 | She's written for a whole host of publications from the Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, |
| 1:37.8 | New York Magazine, Vogue, Grazia El, The Pool, Vanity Fair. |
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