S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Play Is Betrayal
Was there a sense that you had to protect those people and not hurt them? Well, yes, I did want to. The whole idea of protecting people is as a natural from my upbringing. And I still tried not to. That was a natural to me as an impulse, which I perhaps didn't fulfill totally or I wouldn't have had the affair. So we've got the impulse to avoid hurting people with the whole business of guilt and the whole drive of this enormously powerful relationship. It makes for quite an interesting life. Yes. You mentioned the play. The play is betrayal. One of my favourite plays. Partly because it's short. But beyond that, I do think it
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