What are your favorite things to play with?

My princess things?

They're princess things?

Why do you like princesses so much?

I just kind of do.

Do you think it's okay for boys to like princesses?

But I'm a girl, girl, some other, it is nice for everyone. She a girl, and she is not for everyone.

She a girl.

And the street, it is usually me.

Oh yeah it's fun to be a girl.

Oh, where it's fun to be a girl.

My name is Marlow.

My name is Marlow.

I'm a writer and a podcaster and that's my daughter.

For the past seven years, I've been producing a podcast about our life together, telling stories of life as a single mom, raising a young child.

And our story has received a lot of attention from listeners all over the world.

It's also sparked a lot of questions and sometimes controversy because when my child was born I thought I had a son.

This is how to be a Girl on the BBC World Service.

It's the story of me and my daughter

and of what happened when I decided to share that story with other people all over the world.

I think we're good.

Okay, so are you ready? I am ready. That's my producer, Ellie, who's helping me tell my story. Back when I was pregnant during an ultrasound, I decided I wanted to find out whether I was

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