S13, Ep8 How To Fail: Delia Smith
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Sony Music
4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
But if you're expecting a chat about her failure to poach an egg in 1986, you're very much mistaken. Because, at 80, Delia has just written a new book about the meaning of life. Called You Matter, it's an insightful inquisition into what it is to be human. She joins me to talk about human evolution and where it's leading us, as well as why failure is an integral part of getting to know ourselves.
This is such an interesting episode: I loved chatting to Delia but we didn't spend that long on her actual three failures. Instead we talked more broadly about life, love, loss, faith, meditation (without using that specific word) and everything in between. She tells me about what it's like to be a cooking icon, why she hates Masterchef and the sous-vide machine and yes, we do talk about THAT moment of 'let's be having you' at the Norwich City football match. She opens up about being a woman who doesn't have children in the public eye, her failure to pass the 11 plus and how that shaped the rest of her life, and her love of Pharrell Williams. It was a joy to have such an unexpected conversation. I hope you like it too - and we'll be back soon with some bonus episodes. PLURAL.
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I'm doing a live show! Come along to the Royal Festival Hall at 4pm on Sunday 13th March and join me, the wonderful Andi Oliver and Jordan Stephens, for an afternoon of chats and laughter and, yes, failure. I'll be interviewing the two of them, chat-show style, and then YOU will get a chance to ask us all your questions. Hope to see you there. You can book tickets here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/sunday-afternoon-wow-elizabeth-day?eventId=890800
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Delia's new book, You Matter, is out tomorrow and available to order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/you-matter/delia-smith/9781912914333
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The YouTube video with Karim Sulayman that Delia mentions in this episode is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCy8Cfvoe6g
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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email [email protected]
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| 0:50.4 | Hello, it's Elizabeth here. |
| 0:51.9 | Just to let you know, if you can't get enough of this podcast and quite frankly, |
| 0:56.3 | who could? I'm doing an in real life live event at the Wow Women of the World Festival. |
| 1:03.9 | It's on the Sunday of the 13th of March at 4pm. |
| 1:08.6 | I'll be at the Royal Festival Hall in London. |
| 1:11.2 | And I'll be doing a sort of failure chat show where I'll be joined by some very special guests |
| 1:17.6 | to talk about what failure means to them, what they've learnt through their worst mistakes, |
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