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When Everybody Is Somebody

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Will Self reflects on the merits of failure.

Will Self on why we must stop pretending that everyone can be a success.

Will Self reflects on success...and failure.  

'Ours is a society', he writes, 'in which that hoary old saying, 'Nothing succeeds like success', has been elevated to the status of a political, philosophic and indeed moral credo.' 

But, Will argues, this is a world typified by hyperbole and exaggeration, where the successful, 'with plenty of cake to eat, have no need to partake of the true bread of life, which is, of course, failure'.    

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Penny Murphy

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