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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: S3, Ep2 How to Fail: Chris Patten
Description: This week, my guest is the former politician Chris Patten. It's almost easier to list the high-powered offices of state he hasn't occupied than the ones he has. Patten was the 28th governor of Hong Kong, the former Chairman of the BBC, the current Chancellor of Oxford University. For 13 years, he was the Conservative MP for Bath before losing his seat in the 1992 election - one of the incidences of failure he discusses on this episode. At 74, Patten has published seven books, gained a peerage, fathered three children and has eight grandchildren. You might not think he knows m...