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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And I tell you this because I suddenly realized at 16, 17, I would love to be a writer.
I would love to study English literature.
And that just wasn't going to be possible for me.
I was a working class boy that grew up in a neighborhood of great deprivation.
And I think my teachers, rather than turning me away from English, turned me towards something that I could make a living at.
Well, you know, it was wonderful to be around people who had this passion for a thing and they invested that passion in you.
But they saw that I couldn't go on to compete and study English literature at a university level.
They, you know, I would have to be competing with children that would ultimately go to Oxford and Cambridge.
And, you know, they had spent their whole lives, their whole, all their youth around books.
And I just didn't have that.
And so instead, they guided me towards textiles without me really knowing what textiles was.
But they saw a kid that wasn't really great academically, but that wanted to achieve something, someone who was creative and artistic, but needed to do something that ultimately you could find employment on the far side of.
And so I went to a very traditional textile school and I was a weaver for a year.
They let you sample all kinds of textiles.
And I was a printer.
I was a weaver.
And then ultimately I did my rotation into knitting, which sounds like a very sort of crafty thing where you sit with needles.
But in fact, it's a very industrial course.
You do all your knitting on these huge screaming knitting machines that are often computer operated.
And I found knitting just to be really inspiring.
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