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

It can't do it.

It's human relationships.

I'm an optimist.

I think with self-awareness, with reflection, I absolutely agree with you.

We live, our childhoods are here, aren't they?

But I'm an optimist.

I think we can form relationships, we can make sense of our lives, we can be productive, we can be positive.

But I don't think we can necessarily do it on our own.

So probably as a little nine-year-old playing for the first time at the big sixth form college in the Scunthorpe District Orchestra playing Beethoven's Ninth.

And I remember just sitting at the back desk.

I wasn't very good at orchestral music and just hearing that fantastic, you know, the Ode to Joy and just looking around and thinking, wow.

So for me, music has always been a great thing.

Probably for me, one of the worst things was when all the steel workers went on strike.

I remember that.

So we all were on free school meals.

And I remember sitting in my school and the school was really good because they just all, everyone was on free school meals.

We all had to be.

And we all sat there and all the priests and the nuns and everyone came and just sat with us.

But there was a sense of worry about money and worry about the future and worry about

All the boys in my school had all gone to the steelworks and it was going to stop.

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