Dame Rachel De Souza

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518 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 May

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Dame Rachel De Souza, the Children's Commissioner · 12 May 2026 podcast

So he was going to finish the degree.

And then what he did do in the end was he went to do his MPhil at Oxford, was supported by the probation service and had a long career in probation.

But I actually think he was just a Jesuit in Mufti, to be honest.

So there were some things to overcome.

So first of all, I had to get to speak to him.

I mean, I was just a little first year and he was like this serious.

I was 18.

So I think that first Christmas holiday, that first Christmas, because I would work during the holidays doing things like be given tasks where I was living, paint the building or something.

So I was going into university.

So we actually met and got to know each other that first Christmas.

But he...

was meant to be involved.

So his family, quite interesting.

His dad was Goan, who came here in the 50s, dentist, but a big family.

Indeed.

And his mother was Zoroastrian, Parsi.

And from a very sort of, well, her uncle ran shipping.

They were a very well-to-do Mumbai family.

And they had eloped and were cut off from their fortunes and wealth.

sort of came in the 50s came here as dentist trained got married and were cut off but he Chris had been introduced to his mother's best friend's daughter and there was she was a lawyer in Australia and they visited and this was meant to be and then I kept turning up um so my mother-in-law had to cope with she wasn't my mother-in-law then was like she said to me you know you know it

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