S7, Ep6 How to Fail: Marian Keyes

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Marian Keyes is one of those people who you think can't POSSIBLY be as lovely and talented and nice as everyone says she is. She must have a hidden dark side, I thought. Maybe she's a terrible diva who will demand bowls of blue M&Ms and want my toilet freshly re-painted and scented with vanilla before she deigns to use it?But then you meet her and - lo and behold - she is not only as lovely as everyone says she is, but in fact EVEN NICER than that. This is a woman who has sold millions of book, who is one of the most successful and lauded Irish authors of all time, and who could quite forgivably be an egomaniac, but she's utterly fabulous. Or 'fabliss' as Keyes herself would put it.She joins me this week to talk about writing, feminism, low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism, humour as a survival mechanism, her failure to get into journalism college, weight loss (why she knows it shouldn't be important but still can't help worrying about) and her self-perceived 'failure' to have children. We also talk about her great new novel, Grown Ups, where the characters all seem like members of your own family and you're bereft to turn the final page.Thank you Marian. You really are fabliss.* This episode is sponsored by Frank Body who are offering listeners 15% off when they spend £20 or more with the code HOWTOFAIL15 at checkout.* The Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling book of the podcast, How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong is out now in paperback and available to buy here.*Grown Ups by Marian Keyes is published by Penguin and is available to buy here.*How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you! To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayMarian Keyes @mariankeyes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:18.9	represents a broad cross-section of society. It's the home of unfiltered entertainment.
0:24.4	It's altogether different telling, made for you and happily for me because regular listeners
0:30.7	will know about my married at first sight Australia obsession. Currently on the TV, I cannot
0:37.0	get enough of it. I watch it every single night. I really miss it when it's not on on
0:41.1	the Sunday. And for anyone who doesn't know, it follows Australian singles who tie the
0:46.1	knot with partners selected for them by relationship experts, including male shilling, former
0:51.6	How to Fail podcast guest. They meet for the first time on their wedding day and we watch
0:57.1	to find out whether there will be perfect matches ahead or marriage mayhem. I love it.
1:03.5	So stream now on Channel 4. There is so much on there, including Maffsa and Scared of
1:10.0	the Dark, Danny Dyer hosting as eight celebrities of plunge into complete darkness for eight days.
1:16.0	How will Paul Gasco and Chris Ubank's scarlet mothat, Nicola Adams and others cope without
1:21.4	light, stream all of this now on Channel 4.
1:39.2	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things
1:44.6	that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding
1:50.9	that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. Because learning how to fail in life actually
1:57.2	means learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth
2:02.8	Day and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.
2:09.6	Marion Keys once said that to be funny is easier for me than anything else. And indeed
2:16.2	her wit and her wisdom have made her into one of the most successful Irish novelists of
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