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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So we cannot give up on it.

And I think all of those things I've just spoken about are things that need to happen and need investing in and needed investing in.

And what we've done is forget about it.

So I am one of five children.

The brother older than me died as a baby.

So I've got three living brothers.

And I remember being a very little girl and my mother bringing my baby brother home.

And feeling a little bit nonplussed because I'd been the treasured daughter, you know, and feeling a little bit nonplussed.

But, you know, and she, what she did, she sat down with me and she read my favourite poem, The Highwayman, you know.

No, Alfred Noyes.

Alfred Noyes.

You know, the road was a ribbon of moonlight and a highwayman came riding.

And Beth, the landlord's black-eyed daughter, I can remember it.

And all the poems she used to read me.

And just that making time for me like that.

And sort of connected to that.

About that same time, my eldest brother was going to school.

And I remember being really like, I want to go to school.

You know, he's going first and I want to go and she would walk, we'd walk him to school.

So that sense of being read to and the family growing and us all having our little bit of time.

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