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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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Don't All Small Children Want to Show Off?

I feel that you are someone who is never lost for the opposite word. Let's get on to your first failure, which is that in your early teens, you wanted to be an actress. Don't all small children want to display and show off? I did to a very great extent. And we lived in an unmade up road. It was all rubble and it was part of its new development from the 1930s. We used to go into this, open the shed and put on shows for each other,. singing, dancing, la la la laLa, Betty Greyball, that kind of thing. But then I found out that you needed to train to do that. So I

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