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Feb 2023
58m 27s

S16, Ep6 How To Fail: Rick Edwards on co...

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
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Rick Edwards is a broadcaster, author and podcaster. He's the co-host of Radio 5 Live’s Breakfast Show and presents the podcast Eureka alongside the quantum physicist Dr Michael Brooks.He's also, as it happens, my ex-boyfriend. In this episode, we not only discuss Rick's past failures but we do a post-match analysis of our own break-up. It's not often you ge ... Show More
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