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Hello, you're listening to the Arts and Ideas podcast with me, Shahidavari.

Happy International Women's Day on Sunday, that annual date in the calendar when we pay special attention to women's voices.

And the question of how women might want to sound, how they express themselves,

whether that's in the form of speech, song, poetry or complaint, and how they are heard or not

is the subject of our program today. Those were also some of the concerns of the French

feminist philosopher Elaine Sikshu, whose whose novel of 1977 Anxed has just been

newly translated into English, and we'll be thinking about her too. But let's meet our guests

first and hear them. I like to aspire to a radio voice that is clear and low and assured,

rather than bunged up and madly scrambling as I currently am.

But I wonder how they would describe their voices, whether that's in an actual or figurative sense.

And how do they use their voices?

Lauren Elkin, I'm looking at you, translator of French literature, writer of art history,

and a singer in a former life, as you describe, and you're brilliant

forthcoming book about women's voices. How do you describe your voice? And is there a particularly

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