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S9, Ep1 How to Fail: Adam Buxton
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
The Path to Respectability
I hated studying Chaucer when we had to do it at school and I was like oh no this is like Chaucer fuck it was torture and I really hated it. It just never clicked with me until one weekend when I was writing an essay. Adam thought he could draw a parallel between that and with Nell and I in kind of a colloquial way. He rewrote the whole essay and took him much less time but still hadn't got his essay back. Then our tutor said well the standard was pretty bad for your first essays so you guys are going to have to raise your game. And then she said Adam can I talk to you about yours afterwards after class. She told
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