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Barack Obama will make you cringe: Renegades: Born in the USA reviewed

13 March 2021

9:00 AM

13 March 2021

9:00 AM

Renegades: Born in the USA; Tes: My Best Teacher

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My Teenage Diary

BBC Radio 4

Barack Obama wants the world to know how much he loves singing. In his new podcast, which takes the form of a series of conversations with Bruce Springsteen, he’s rarely without a tune on his lips. ‘Further on up the road…/ you been laughing, pretty baby…’ A shower-singer, a bedroom warbler, an Air Force One air guitarist with an okay voice, the former president is proof that you really can be embarrassing without feeling an ounce of embarrassment.

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