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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

S3, Ep8 How to Fail: Pandora Sykes

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.79.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week I get to interview one of my favourite fellow podcasters: Pandora Sykes is a journalist,  co-host of The High Low and all-round woman of impeccable taste (I mean, she must be to have agreed to come on How To Fail, right?) Sykes is also a contributing editor at Man Repeller and Elle magazine and writes regularly for other publications. Her High Low co-host, Dolly Alderton, is a former How To Fail guest and - fun fact - Dolly's episode is the most downloaded OF ALL TIME.I'm so happy Pandora agreed to come on the podcast and to talk eloquently and insightfully about not fitting in with friends at school, being fired from an internship in her 20s and 'failing to harness/ contain my brain after having a baby' even though, on the surface, her life seemed to be picture-perfect. Her words will carry so much resonance for so many of us and I loved doing this interview (partly because I got to nose around Pandora's beautiful house and to meet her mother who was as terrific as you'd expect and makes a mean sausage plait).If you haven't listened to The High Low, hello who are you and what are you doing and please download it right now. It's a brilliant weekly take on high and low-brow news and culture. You can order Pandora's essay, The Authentic Lie, via the crowd-funded publisher The Pound Project. (Full disclosure: I wrote the foreword). The book of the podcast, How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong by Elizabeth Day is available to pre-order here. Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayPandora Sykes @pinsykesThe High Low @thehighlowshowChris Sharp @chrissharpaudio4th Estate Books @4thEstateBooks      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Channel 4 is the home of your next TV obsession.

0:04.6

As the UK's biggest free streaming service, they have it all, they really do, you know,

0:09.8

from classic comedy box sets to shocking reality, gripping drama and mind-bending documentaries.

0:17.1

They make content that's different from the rest, and which represents a broad cross-section

0:21.9

of society.

0:23.3

Channel 4 is the home of unfiltered entertainment.

0:26.7

It's all together different, telly, made for you.

0:30.6

And happily, for me, there's so much I always want to watch on Channel 4, whether it be

0:36.4

a bit of Made in Chelsea or the entire box set of Derry Girls, which is one of my favourite

0:41.2

programmes of all time.

0:43.1

Regular listeners will know that I grew up in Derry, and it totally reflects my experience

0:47.4

all be it through an utterly hilarious lens.

0:50.2

And there's also a three-part series that I can't wait to feast my eyes on, called

0:54.6

Dep versus Herde.

0:56.7

It unpicks the court case that so many of us watched online and saw being absolutely

1:03.6

everywhere in various comment sections, the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Herde.

1:09.0

So this is the first place that collates all of that material in one simple format.

1:14.8

It allows you to see the story from all sides, a three-part series, Dep versus Herde, can't

1:19.6

wait to watch it.

1:21.0

And I highly recommend that you do too.

1:24.4

Now on Channel 4.

1:29.0

This episode is brought to you by Fever Tree.

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