S4, Ep7 How to Fail: Nesrine Malik

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to welcome the brilliant Nesrine Malik, a British-Sudanese writer and newspaper columnist who has recently been longlisted for the prestigious Orwell Prize and whose forthcoming book, We Need New Stories, is a riveting assault on our tired old ideologies. (She's also really funny, by the way.)Nesrine joins me to talk about the not-so-terrible-yet-somehow-devastating shame of not getting the A-grade she was predicted in her GCSE English (a failure so personal, she has never told anyone about it), why she's never grown out of 'mommy and daddy issues' and why she finds it difficult to put down roots anywhere. Along the way, we talk about the shock of sudden death, going to school against the backdrop of a military coup and when it's obvious someone has cooked Ottolenghi.I adore this woman and I know that after 45 minutes in her intelligent, inquiring company, you will too. We Need New Stories by Nesrine Malik is available to pre-order hereHow To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, recorded by Chris Sharp and sponsored by 4th Estate BooksThe Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling book of the podcast, How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong by Elizabeth Day, is out now and is available here. Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayNesrine Malik @nesrinemalikChris 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.
0:23.2	Channel 4 is the home of unfiltered entertainment.
0:26.7	It's all together different telly, made for you, and happily for me.
0:32.3	There's so much I always want to watch on Channel 4, whether it be a bit of made in Chelsea,
0:38.1	or the entire box set of Derry Girls, which is one of my favourite 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.
0:50.3	And there's also a three-part series that I can't wait to feast my eyes on, called
0:54.6	Dep vs. Heard.
0:56.7	It unpicks the court case that so many of us watched online and saw being absolutely everywhere
1:04.2	in various comments sections, the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
1:09.1	So this is the first place that collates all of that material in one simple format.
1:14.9	It allows you to see the story from all sides, a three-part series, Dep vs. Heard.
1:19.3	Can't wait to watch it.
1:21.1	And I highly recommend that you do too.
1:24.4	Now on Channel 4.
1:26.2	This episode is brought to you by Fever Tree.
1:32.6	Now regular listeners will know that I am passionate about a perfectly made margarita.
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