Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The legend discusses her new album, her complicated relationship to performing, and recording a duet with Bob Dylan decades after he first asked her to collaborate.

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:09.6	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:11.8	Hi, sorry to be a little late.
0:14.2	Not at all. How are you?
0:15.8	Oh, my God. How am I?
0:19.4	Do you recognize that, boys?
0:21.6	Sure you do.
0:22.6	Okay, let me see here.
0:24.6	How about if I just do that?
0:26.6	Is that okay?
0:27.6	Poifte.
0:28.6	Poifte.
0:29.6	What song was that that I did that?
0:31.6	I think you said poifict more than once in your career.
0:35.6	For 60 years, Barbara Streisand has been a huge presence on the American scene.
0:41.5	Singing at first in nightclubs when she was a teenager, she went on to conquer, Broadway, and Hollywood.
0:48.1	Streisand was not a stand-up comedian, but she was and remains hilarious with a personality to match her talent.
0:55.6	There's a string of first attached to her name.
0:57.9	For one thing, she's the youngest person ever to achieve the egot.
1:01.9	She was just 28 when she had already received the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar, and the Tony.
1:08.4	With the movie Yentel, she became the first woman to star, direct, write, and produce a major studio movie.
1:15.9	Anyway, you're interesting.
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