S15, BONUS EPISODE How To Fail: Lorraine Kelly, the daytime TV icon on failing to go to uni, being fired and...penguins
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Sony Music
4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In a special bonus episode, she joins me to talk about everything from the power of drag to the TV executive who told her to change her accent to how being fired on maternity leave was actually the making of her via her worries that she only had one child and her passion for penguins. Yes. Penguins. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things |
| 0:19.2 | that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding |
| 0:25.5 | that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger because learning how to fail in life actually means |
| 0:32.2 | learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth Day, and every |
| 0:38.4 | week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure. In May 2022, the |
| 0:45.4 | then Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared on Good Morning Britain interviewed by Susanna |
| 0:49.9 | Reid. When told that Lorraine was about to begin Johnson blurted out, who's Lorraine? Reed replied, |
| 0:57.3 | Lorraine's a legend. The answer was both concise and deadly accurate. For Lorraine Kelly is indeed |
| 1:05.4 | a legend. A broadcaster for almost 40 years, a woman able to take the temperature of the nation and |
| 1:11.8 | to talk to anyone from Oscar winners to bus drivers with the same warm chatty and yet deceptively |
| 1:18.5 | forensic manner. She was born to work in class teenage parents and grew up in a one-room flat in |
| 1:24.6 | Glasgow's Gourbel's area with an outside Lou and no hot water, but it was a childhood furnished by |
| 1:30.7 | love and filled with books and newspapers. Kelly turned down a university place to join the local |
| 1:36.6 | paper and then BBC Scotland as a researcher. By 1984, she was TVAM's Scotland correspondent. |
| 1:44.1 | Today, she's at the helm of the eponymous Lorraine show live every weekday morning. Lorraine has seen |
| 1:51.1 | us through pandemics, lockdowns and changes in government. She is for many of us the constant warm |
| 1:57.5 | incisive presence that anchors our day and makes us all feel seen and heard. The phrase national treasure |
| 2:04.5 | is often overused, but Lorraine Kelly is absolutely one. It's little wonder that total strangers assume |
| 2:10.6 | they know her. She says, I'll be totalling around with my husband in the supermarket and people |
| 2:15.4 | will come up and start chatting to us. He'll just stand here and then they'll go and he'll say, |
| 2:20.0 | how do we know them? And I'm like, we don't. Lorraine Kelly, legendary Lorraine, I cannot believe I |
| 2:28.4 | get to say this. Welcome to How To Fail. Oh, it's so good. So good to talk to you. I love, I love |
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