Claire Stephens
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6,733 appearances
38 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Claire Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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was a huge early champion of his work.
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It's interesting when you think about how singular she is.
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There's a thought experiment you can do.
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A magazine I worked at wanted to do a series called Who's Your Dolly?
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And it was about this idea that every country has one famous person that everyone loves.
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And in the US, that's Dolly Parton.
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And it got me thinking about, well, who would be the Australian equivalent?
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And some of the names that came up when we talked about it this morning, Steve Irwin, Kylie, maybe John Farnham.
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But it does help you to understand just how singular Dolly Parton is.
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Just back
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It's almost like she gave us a service by putting on that hair and makeup and that look, that consistency in it.
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It was like her
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Yes.
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She wore it to work.
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And just like she was with everything, there was a lack of ego in it because she was very self-deprecating about her look.
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She said, I'm not a natural beauty.
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I've had to work hard for everything.
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But the lack of ego extended to that reluctance to weigh into the daily political grind as well.
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decades
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but it's such a balance between what she chose to share with us and what she didn't and I think in an era of self-disclosure about everything it is comforting to not have to know everything about her
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