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S2, Ep8 How to Fail: David Baddiel
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
The Persistence of Fame
Fame was a show about the everyday mundane humiliations of fame. It's hard for me often to get away from that sense of like, you know, this football lad. And I'm very male in lots of ways. So whatever your first scene as with fame, that tends to reify and stick on you. Updikes had fame as a mask that eats into the face. Some people revel in that. But because I'm obsessed with the truth, I think it's been complicated for me that, for example, you mentioned Laddisum in your introduction. That thing of being just slightly more recognizable than other people and if you're seen doing something even just
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