Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to tell you why I love

podcasting. I'm Natasha Aronson I'm an assistant commissioner for the BBC and I work on

making podcasts my real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest

stars who can really bring those stories to life.

I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final edit.

There's nothing like it. What makes BBC Podcast special is that we're working for you.

So whatever we commission has to reflect the things that you care about and love wherever you are in the

UK. So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover. Have a listen on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Laura Levern here, we're taking our summer break.

So until we're back on air, we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.

As usual, the music's been shortened for rights reasons.

This week's guest is the singer, Adele.

I cast her away in 2022. Oh, My cast away this week is the singer and songwriter Adele. She was born Adele Adele

Adele Adkins and is quite simply the UK's best-selling female album artist of the 21st century.

Her treasure trove of awards includes 15 Grammys, multiple Brits, a golden globe and an Oscar.

When she releases an album, it's a global event.

Her fourth, 30, followed its predecessors in documenting her life at different ages

and chartered every lurch of her heart from her childhood in Tottenham

to Beverly Hills where she now lives. On stage she combines charisma with an unpretentious chatty

intimacy and power with raw vulnerability, qualities which have enabled

her to pull off that rare feet of being the superstar next door.

She says, I'm confident, I'm loud. to be in any art, you have to crave love, you want approval.

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