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Gillian Reynolds

Article thumbnail: Barbra Streisand, whose new memoir runs to nearly 1,000 pages (Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty/Dwight D Opperman Foundation)
Gillian Reynolds

Barbra Streisand is 81 and hasn't had any fun - I'm 87 and I know that's a tragedy

I've been a Barbra Streisand fan since the 50s - she was a rare female star who wasn't bubbly or bitchy

Radio

I've listened to Desert Island Discs for 80 years - but Laverne has made me switch off

Gillian Reynolds

My friend Parky was pure joy - even if he did sulk when I got a CBE first

Article thumbnail: Ken Bruce will be fronting an exclusive new service for Bauer, available only on subscription, featuring music of the sixties. (Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)
Gillian Reynolds

I am one of the many who have deserted the Today programme – it’s boring, late and stale

Gillian Reynolds

Ken Bruce won't last on Greatest Hits if his listeners don't buy into the ads

Article thumbnail: Scottish veteran broadcaster Ken Bruce leaving BBC Wogan House in London, after his last day presenting his BBC Radio 2 show, which he has hosted for 31 years. Picture date: Friday March 3, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Bruce. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: Scottish veteran broadcaster Ken Bruce leaving BBC Wogan House in London, after his last day presenting his BBC Radio 2 show, which he has hosted for 31 years. Picture date: Friday March 3, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Bruce. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: Ken Bruce Image via kate.adam@bbc.co.uk
Article thumbnail: Ken Bruce Image via kate.adam@bbc.co.uk
Article thumbnail: BRISTOL, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 08: A builder fits a radiator to the wall at a residential development on October 8, 2015 in Bristol, England. British Prime Minister David Cameron used his keynote speech at the Conservative party conference this week to announce changes to the planning laws to unburden developers with the requirement to provide affordable rental homes with the aim of providing more homes for first-time buyers. The PM hopes it will see 200,000 new homes built by 2020 and will turn the so called generation rent into generation buy. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: BRISTOL, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 08: A builder fits a radiator to the wall at a residential development on October 8, 2015 in Bristol, England. British Prime Minister David Cameron used his keynote speech at the Conservative party conference this week to announce changes to the planning laws to unburden developers with the requirement to provide affordable rental homes with the aim of providing more homes for first-time buyers. The PM hopes it will see 200,000 new homes built by 2020 and will turn the so called generation rent into generation buy. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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