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i m stephen sackur. getting to the top in showbusiness is hard, but staying there is much, much harder and few stars can match the sustained success in music, film and theatre of my guest today. petula clark was a much loved child performer during the second world war. she went on to have a host of hits in the uk, france, the us and pretty much everywhere else. she has worked with legendary names from fred astaire to serge gainsbourg, and she is still singing and touring. so what makes her tick? petula clark, welcomed the hardtalk. thank you, stephen. i have to begin by talking about the voice because you do have one of those wonderfully distinctive, clear singing voices and ijust wonder when you reflect on the long career whether you really feel the voice is pretty much the same now as it ever was? pretty much. today i am a bit husky, i ve got a cold a good old english cold. no, my voice is perhaps a little bit stronger than it used to be and probably there s a bit m ....