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Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, fascinating historical conversations from BBC History

magazine and BBC History Revealed.

This week the new Barbie film was released, catapulting the iconic doll back into the cultural

spotlight. In the decades since Barbie's creation by Ruth Handler in 1959, the toy has been

about much more than just high heels and hot pink hair accessories. I wanted to find out

more about Barbie's changing image and what it can tell us about our changing society.

So I put in a call to Robin Gerber, author of Barbie and Ruth, the story of the world's

most famous doll and the woman who created her. It feels like everybody across the world

at the moment is talking about Barbie, because of course there's the new Barbie film out.

But for history fans who might be thinking, hmm, History Extra is a history podcast, why

are they talking about Barbie? Why is Barbie so historically significant?

Well of course many people are talking about Barbie now because of the movie, but they've

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