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Oct 2024
58 m

Miranda Hart - 'I always knew I’d get m...

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
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It’s been ten years of ‘bear with.. bear with’ but *finally* we’ve got our beloved Miranda Hart back. Due to a long-term undiagnosed chronic illness (which we talk about, of course) Miranda has been largely out of the public eye for the past decade. I was so touched to be the first person she spoke to on her return to work. We covered writing her new book (f ... Show More
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