Dame Rachel De Souza

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

there is someone else and I say yeah but they were lovely so my in-laws really so I soon got to know them within a year or two we were always fine.

So I got to the end of my degree.

I mean, I love my degree and I just did it for it.

What was it again?

Philosophy and theology.

So I mean, I was reading, taught by some of the best Jesuit minds, you know, Freddie Copleston, some of the great, great thinkers.

I loved it.

But obviously it's not practical.

It's not obviously practical.

And one of my tutors said to me who...

explains that he loved Kierkegaard he used to be and he was like go he was all trying to give you the challenge and he's go go you know do something in the world you know don't be you know one of these people who just sort of is trying to save the world like what a rubbish um go do something and I thought well you know I'm from humble origins I've got no one to look after me I should do something so I went and got myself a job as an accountant with one of the big accountancy firms I thought

to do it you know i'm fine and that was the job then everyone was you know you wanted to go work for another big four um and i did it for two weeks and i cried every night i hated it i just hated it i thought you know i've lived for the mind and now i'm sitting here now for the right person i'm sure it's wonderful and i realized what i wanted to do was to be a teacher and

so i remember saying to chris i mean we were just courting him so tim you know i'm so miserable he was like stop don't worry don't worry do whatever you want to do i said i want to be a teacher like oh i'm gonna be marital teacher nightmare but um the second i stepped into a classroom i loved it i loved it it was education was my vocation i loved it what was your best ever day as a teacher

Oh, the day when I took on my first, as a headteacher, it was as a headteacher.

Quite very quickly.

So probably, I was Tony Blair's number 69th Academy Principal in 2005.

I was only 35.

So, you know, in those days, the Academy Principals were all...

60 years old and called her something.

And I was just this sort of 30-something-year-old skitty.

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