Nicky Birch
speaker
487 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Nicky Birch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know if you felt the same, Andy.
And it made them separate from everyone else.
Can I read a bit from it?
Okay, so this is a bit from, and I suppose this is the kind of thing that made me think about her having some kind of neurodivergence.
She's the eldest of a number of children.
I can't remember exactly, like five or six kids.
Mother Vera seems to pop out children all the time but only really likes babies and not children.
She's out in the garden, and I'll just go on from here.
One afternoon, she was told to bring the baby in from the garden.
Reluctantly, she trailed out into the still early autumn air.
The pram was on the lawn some way from the house.
With clumsy fingers, Janet undid the stiff navy cover, pulled back innumerable blankets and scrabbled under the hood for the swaddled occupant, who began to roar, fixing Janet with an unblinking glare.
It was difficult to pull her from under the hood.
Janet tried to lower it and cut her fingers in its joints so that blood dripped onto the baby's shawls.
Louder came the roars.
It began to rain.
The shawls were unravelling and catching on the metal parts of the hood.
She pulled at them and tore a great hole in the lacy cobweb.
In desperation, Janet seized the infant by her head and dragged her out, clutching at the corners of shawl and looping them over the flailing torso.
The whole bundle slithered through her hands and lay shrieking frantically on the dank grass.
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