New podcast History’s Greatest Fails brings together chart-topping How to Fail’s Elizabeth Day and New York Times bestselling historian Dan Jones, known for This is History.
Elizabeth is renowned for interviewing some of the biggest names in entertainment and culture, helping them to understand and reframe their failures as a launchpad for success. Dan, meanwhile, is an expert in bringing the past to life through his vivid historical storytelling.
The pair reunite from their days of studying History together at Cambridge University, to discuss history’s greatest disasters, downfalls and debacles. They not only revisit these historic missteps but also explore why we are still obsessed with them and what these failures reveal about reputation, myth-making and modern culture.
Episodes range from doomed romances including Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, to artistic flops turned masterpieces, to the biggest political mishaps. The duo dig beyond the history books to discover what the past reveals about the present and what it might tell us about the future.
