S15, Ep7 How To Fail: Nihal Arthanayake on fatherhood, chicken bongs and the most difficult conversation he's ever had

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Nihal Arthanayake is a broadcaster and author. He is the host of Radio 5 Live’s Afternoon Show and won interviewer of the year at the 2019 BBC Radio and Music Awards. His new book, Let’s Talk: How To Have Better Conversations, investigates the art of good dialogue - a skill that has served him handsomely in his chosen career.
He joins me to talk about his academic failures, his failures as a son, husband and father, and his failures in friendship. Plus he makes me burst out laughing with an anecdote involving Method Man and a chicken bong (not a typo). Listen to the full episode to find out more...

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Nihal's book, Let's Talk, is out now and available to purchase here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/lets-talk/nihal-arthanayake/9781398711464

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. To contact us, email [email protected]

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Social Media:

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Nihal Arthanayake @therealnihal

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0:30.4	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.
0:47.6	The podcast that celebrates the things that haven't gone right.
0:52.0	This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding that why we fail ultimately
0:57.6	makes us stronger.
0:59.4	Because learning how to fail in life actually means learning how to succeed better.
1:05.3	I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth Day, and every week I'll be asking a new
1:10.3	interviewee what they've learned from failure.
1:14.1	Nehal Athernaika is a broadcaster and author.
1:17.9	He's the host of Radio 5 Lives Afternoon Show and won interviewer of the year at the
1:23.2	2019 BBC Radio and Music Awards.
1:26.8	For the course of three hours, his guests can range from hostage negotiators to former
1:31.4	presidents, from rock stars to TV presenters, to ordinary people who simply find themselves
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