S9, Ep7 How to Fail: Nadiya Hussain

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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[TW: contains discussion of sexual assault]You asked - and we listened. Welcome to one of the most requested podcast guests of all time, the wonderful Nadiya Hussain. Baker, tv presenter, author and all-round good egg, Nadiya joins me to talk about her failure to enjoy life, her failure to finish university and her failure to speak out on issues she subsequently realised were important for a public figure to tackle - such as race, identity and the issues we face as a country (such a self-aware failure, that). We also discuss her recently discovered joy of not planning, her constant effort to remain in the present and the fact that she doesn't have a cleaner (her children help her clean the house every weekend...I KNOW).*I have a new book out! Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong contains two-and-bit years worth of accumulated wisdom from my fantastic podcast guests and is available here*Nadiya's new book, Nadiya Bakes, is available to order 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 You can buy our fantastic PODCAST MERCH here.* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayNadiya Hussain @begumnadiyaHow To Fail @howtofailpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.0	forward slash How to Fail. Thank you very much to Joe Malone London.
1:24.0	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things that haven't gone right.
1:39.0	This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger.
1:47.0	Because learning how to fail in life actually means learning how to succeed better.
1:53.0	I'm your host author and journalist Elizabeth Day and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.
2:02.0	I'm so delighted to welcome today's guest onto the podcast. I have lost count of the number of messages I've had from listeners begging me to get her on.
2:12.0	I can promise you this will be more than worth the wait. She is the winner of the six series of the Great British Bake Off.
2:19.0	A woman who inspired 14.5 million viewers with her rousing victory speech.
2:24.0	Catapulted into the limelight, she went on to front several hit TV food programs and was chosen to bake the Queen's 90th Birthday Cake.
2:34.0	She's also got 13 books to her name including four works of children's fiction and last year's moving memoir, Finding My Voice.
2:43.0	Her fifth cookbook, Nadia Bakes, has just been published and comes with an accompanying BBC 2 TV show.
2:50.0	She is of course Nadia Hussein.
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