Douglas Stuart
speaker
201 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 May
Douglas Stuart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In fact, when I was 16 and I was guided towards textiles, I couldn't quite tell you what the word textile meant.
You know, I'm often asked as a writer, what was your favorite childhood book?
What did you read as a kid?
And the answer to that is, I didn't read books as a kid.
We didn't have any books at home.
We didn't have access to them.
It wasn't quite such an unusual thing because I think if I looked at the boys I grew up around, many of them also weren't reading either.
But, you know, children also need a huge amount of peace in their lives in order to read, you know, both peace inside themselves and peace at home.
And also at school, to be honest.
And I didn't have any of that because I was dealing with a single mother who was suffering with addiction.
And then at school, I was being bullied for being gay.
But two things happened when I was 16.
The first thing that happened was my mother died very suddenly one morning.
Her addiction finally got the better of her.
And when I left for school in the morning, she was fine.
When I came home at lunchtime, she was dead.
And also at 16, school becomes...
optional for Scottish children you can leave if you want to and so my year of about 300 kids went down to only 12 kids and I found myself one of only 12 kids remaining in my year who were going to finish high school who were then going to go on to college hopefully and I found myself in an English class where I was the only student
It was just me and two English teachers, Mr. Arthur and Mr. Archibald.
And suddenly they had eight hours a week with a student who was trying to pay attention, who was trying to understand how to read, not just get through the exams, but trying to learn how to digest books and how to take in all their meaning.
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