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Aug 19
51m 56s

Failure Throwback: Phoebe Waller Bridge

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
About this episode
To mark 500 episodes of How to Fail! To we’re re-releasing the first ever episode with Phoebe Waller Bridge, which originally went out in July 2018. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator and star of Fleabag, writer of Killing Eve, superstar feminist and human embodiment of a Star Wars droid, joins How To Fail to talk about how she failed at her 20s (but got lots o ... Show More
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