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Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio.

Polly Toinby, this week's guest, welcome.

I mean interesting barely touches the sides, does it?

I'm glad you think so.

Well, I just sort of your memoir, my family and other radicals, is

unbelievable. If you've just leaped through

the index, it's basically a who's who

of about 150 years of

liberal intelligentsia

and, well,

and the rest of it. Did you know when you

sat down to write it quite how

remarkable your family tree was? Did you know every tw sat down to write it quite how remarkable your family tree was?

Did you know every twig? I pretty much did because they've all written books themselves,

which makes writing a book much easier because they're all there. They wrote obsessively. It wrote a lot.

And it is a long radical tradition and it has been passed on from generation to generation.

I think we're all very aware of it.

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