Claire Stephens
speaker
6,891 appearances
39 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard today
Claire Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 39 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 11.
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She was obviously a brilliant musician, brilliant singer-songwriter.
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In the 90s, she was really well known for writing I Will Always Love You, the
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Whitney Houston sang in The Bodyguard.
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You know, she wrote that song
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writing.
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But back then, I think she was seen as a little bit of a kind of caricature.
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And often she would be associated with big breasts and
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make jokes about her boob job.
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But then in latter life, as the US and as the world became more polarized, more politically charged, really in the last 10 to 15 years,
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people came to see her as a symbol that, yes, we can still agree on one thing.
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It doesn't matter how divided we are, how much we disagree with each other,
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angry we are at each other politically.
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There is one thing that everyone, at least in the United States, but I think around the world, could agree on, and it was that they loved Dolly Parton.
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wasn't.
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She walked such an interesting line in terms of what she said and what she didn't say.
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We don't know anything about her politics,
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know everything about her values and about what she thought was important.
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So, for instance, you mentioned the Imagination Library, but she gave $1 million to help fund a COVID vaccine at a very crucial point in the scientific research for those vaccines.
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She was an AIDS activist when that was still taboo, and she has funded documentaries and public awareness campaigns.
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She was always incredibly inclusive of the LGBT community, and she spoke up about inclusion at a time when that was also somewhat controversial.
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