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This is a Global Player Original Podcast.

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to allow me to

spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with people that I find fascinating.

And Miriam Margler is at this point in the series, I normally say, and this week's guest,

fit squarely into that category of being fascinating,

but in your case, I feel it might be something of an understatement.

What, you mean I fit roundly into it?

There must be a word beyond fascinating, and there's no earthly way.

We're going to touch the sides of your extraordinary life in the minutes that are available,

but we shall try.

Thank you for having me on the programme.

Well, thank you for coming.

I'm fascinated by how superhuman or supernaturally secure you seem in your own skin.

And I presume reading your book, this much is true, your memoir, astonishingly well-received memoir,

although that wasn't always the case.

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