The host of How To Fail joins the Tortoise team to pitch the story she thinks should lead the news and to talk about her book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict.

In this episode, recorded in front of an audience in the Tortoise newsroom, they discuss dissatisfaction with the NHS, Trump’s financial woes and conspiracy theories surrounding the Baltimore bridge collapse. 

Email: newsmeeting@tortoisemedia.com

Guests:

• Elizabeth Day, podcaster and author of Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
• Stephen Armstrong, reporter at Tortoise
• Cat Neilan, Tortoise’s political editor

Host: Giles Whittell, deputy editor at Tortoise

Producers: Rebecca Moore and Casey Magloire

Executive producer: Lewis Vickers

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