Luke Bateman

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1,125 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Conversations · Luke Bateman on surviving a gambling addiction and the magic of his mum’s love · 29 May 2026 podcast

tell stories about how she would breastfeed us both at the same time.

And then Sam was a little bit older, so she had to keep Sam occupied while she was breastfeeding me and Sarah.

So she'd read books.

So like me, she'd have me and Sarah on one breast each and then Sam would be sitting there and she'd be just reading us all books.

Okay.

In my mind, that is a woman with two arms, twins, and having to turn pages with her toe.

Yeah, she's a superwoman.

What's your first memory of buying a book of your own?

Okay, so my very first memory of buying my own book was at the – I was in –

preschool in preschool in miles and the scholastic book fair would come once or twice a year I'm sure any you know any kids who grew up in a scholastic book fair probably still going actually and I bought a Pokemon picture novel yeah and

And I remember it so clearly.

And the reason that I remember it is because I would pretend to read it and I couldn't read because I was in preschool.

I hadn't learned how to read yet.

And I would sit down, I'd flip through the pages and I'd pretend to read the book and I'd just look at all the Pokemon pictures.

And for those who know Pokemon...

Mew and Mewtwo.

Yeah.

So it was like a, it had like the rare Pokemon in the book and I just used to always, you know, cause I always loved like Mew and Mewtwo.

They were my favorite.

And my brother would always pay me out and he'd be like, you can't read.

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