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S5 BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Philippa Perry and Sadie Jones

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Philippa's Relationship With Failure

I was less anxious about this being seen as a domestic story because everybody's in a family. I was more concerned with keeping it intimate than worrying about it being too intimate. Philippa, are you scared of failure or have you learnt to embrace it as something that builds up a kind of emotional resilience? I think you can't do anything without failing. This is so speaking my language, rupture and repair. We make mistakes, we go, oops, and then we try and correct the mistake and then we make another mistake. And even though it's a series of mistakes, we sort of get there in the end and mistakes are failures, are they not? They are.

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