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Jan 2025
1h 8m

Failure Throwback: Jamie Dornan

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
About this episode
I’m revisiting some of my favourite episodes this Christmas. This week it’s Jamie Dornan, whose episode went out when we were in deepest, darkest lockdown, on 24th November 2020. This is what I wrote at the time: You’ll know Jamie from starring on our screens in The Fall, Fifty Shades of Grey, and more recently The Tourist. He joins me to talk about failu ... Show More
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