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UK. You're listening to the London Review of Books podcast.

I'm Thomas Jones.

And for this episode, I'm joined by my colleague Malin Hay,

who's usually on this side of the microphone asking the questions.

But today she's here to talk about her piece in the last issue of the paper,

which is on Barbara Streisand. It's a review of Streisand's nearly thousand page autobiography.

My name is Barbara. Hello, Malin. Hello, Tom. So I would say that Barbara Streisand needs

no introduction, but maybe that's not quite right anymore.

Singer, actor, writer, producer, director, hugely successful, both commercially and critically.

First woman to win an Oscar as a composer.

Also, as you say in the piece, the first woman or female star to say fuck in the movies.

But less famous now than in her 1960s and 70s heyday,

there are whole Reddit threads about who is Barbara Streisand,

what sort of fuss about?

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