Emma Dabiri - ‘We are still so obsessed with how we look’

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This episode of How To Fail was recorded in front of a live audience at Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy theatre. Emma Dabiri is a broadcaster, historian, and bestselling author whose work delves into the complexities of identity, culture, and race through art history and current affairs. She's now written a number of books - culture shifting works which are a radical re-imagining of what we consider to be beauty. Her first book was an Irish Times bestseller and inspired a conversation around race that led to change regulations in schools and in the British Army. It was later adapted into an award-winning documentary. She's a fellow in African studies at London, SOAS and is the mother of two boys. Over on Failing with Friends, Emma talks about advice for someone in the audience who feels their singleness is a failure; what success looks like; when to know when to stop fertility treatment, and Elizabeth and Emma’s thoughts on Botox among other things! To hear Emma tackling your failures join our community of subscribers here: https://howtofail.supportingcast.fm/#content Have something to share of your own? I'd love to hear from you! Click here to get in touch: howtofailpod.com 🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on your first Saily data plans! Use code [howtofail] at checkout. Download Saily app or go to to https://saily.com/howtofail ⛵ Production & Post Production Coordinator: Eric Ryan Mix Engineer: Richie Lee Live Engineer: Will Kontargyris Producer: Hannah Talbot Executive Producer: Carly Maile Head of Marketing: Kieran Lancini How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can hear all of the things that my guests might have failed to divulge
0:05.8	in the main episode by joining us in our subscriber community failing with friends? It's where you
0:11.3	will hear really riveting pieces of information like Olivia Atwood's dream date location or Miranda
0:18.0	Hart's advice on performing bodily functions in front of your partner.
0:22.2	Just follow the link in the podcast notes and we will see you there.
0:35.4	Welcome to How to Fail. This week, it's with the brilliant Emma Dabury, live from the Borghosh Energy Theatre, Dublin. I hope you love it as much as we did.
0:45.4	This emphasis on our appearance is just, you know, so, so, so dominant. And I bought like whatever the, however much booze you could buy I bought. I bought like all the
0:56.0	bottles of vodka. My life just felt like I was like in a hip-hop, like music video. It was so
1:00.5	different to like Dublin in the 90s. Hello, it's Elizabeth Day from the How to Fail podcast
1:07.8	here. Did you know that Netflix has got some fantastic new documentaries
1:12.0	available to stream this month?
1:14.6	Out on the 16th of April is The Diamond Heist.
1:18.2	This is an exploration of the attempted theft
1:20.7	of the 350 million-pound Millennium Star Diamond
1:24.1	from the Millennium Dome in 2000,
1:26.5	executive produced by Guy Ritchie.
1:29.0	It's told from the point of view of the criminals who attempted the raid and the flying squad
1:33.6	who checkmated them. What I loved about this documentary was the gall of the heist crew,
1:39.4	who said that if they pulled it off, it would have been the biggest heist of all time. Well,
1:43.7	all I can say is that they certainly didn't let the prospect of failing deter them.
1:48.7	Also, at one point, someone commented that it was just like a Guy Ritchie film,
1:52.3	which cracked me up, given that he exec produced the documentary.
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