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S9, Ep1 How to Fail: Adam Buxton

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Being a Middle Class Manta

I'm so sorry about your mother because you talk so affectionately about both of your parents actually in your book it's a really really lovely and honest portrait. Did she read the book? No she didn't actually. Her last couple of years she was sort of deteriorating and she had cancer and that affected all sorts of things even though we thought she was really nailing the cancer. But anyway she was a trooper she was old school I'm fine I'm fine oh don't you know stop fussing about me honestly. She knew most of the stuff in there and she was proud that I'd done it and she was impressed that it was coming out. And I think I even managed to

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