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

She's very artistic.

My mother-in-law has painted a drawing of you.

It's got this fantastic carving of a nun.

And I know that's a mother figure for her and the nuns.

And I think that orderly, having five children and the way she brought us up, it was, I was taught by nuns and I can see the influence, you know, that it was order.

It was calm.

There was lots of love.

There was a love of education.

Well, I think they were mixed, you know, but they were good to count on.

So my father is from an Irish Catholic background and he grew up in Scunthorpe and he was quite bright.

He got sent to like the technical grammar school they had in those days.

And he could have gone on to his university, but his father sent him out to work.

So I think that was always a bit of a thing with him.

Dave, Dave Kenny, David Kenny.

Yeah, yeah.

And he, it was an unusual marriage, right?

I can't think of two more different people.

So she was 18, he was 25.

He was the cousin of one of my mother's close friends.

And she, he was...

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