Hello I'm Elizabeth Day and season 20, yes you heard that right, season 20 of my

podcast How to Fail is coming out on January the 24th. I always love curating the best possible lineup of guests for you and this season is no different

you'll hear from a diverse range of voices including actors directors musicians

politicians broadcasters authors and many more, all of whom will, as ever,

be sharing what they've learned through failure.

For those of you that might be new here, welcome.

How to Fail celebrates the things in life that haven't gone right,

and what, if anything, we've learned from those mistakes that might help us succeed better.

Every week, my guest share three times. that might help us succeed better.

Every week my guests share three failures,

sparking intimate, thought-provoking, and funny conversations.

You can go back and listen to previous guests I've had on from Phoebe Waller Bridge.

I felt like I hit the edges of something during Killing Eve.

And also because I was filming Star Wars at the same time and you feel so lucky so you do push yourself I also probably should have said I need to take a week because I can't think straight because I'm so tired but unless you really demand that no one's really gonna say that for you because everyone's just like

to be fine get on with it to Bernie Sanders you will get upset when you hear your

parents arguing all the time and they did. My father came to the

United States with no money at all. My mother was born in the United States. She

had dreams expectations I think that were greater than my father's. He was very content to make the living that he made.

We lived in a rent, what was called a rent-controlled apartment for a lower-income families.

And my mother wanted more and there was a constant friction in the house and I think that impacts a young child.

And Stephen Bartlett.

That was compounded with the fact that I was the only black kid in my school other than my brothers and

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