Patricia Forde
speaker
460 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Patricia Forde’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I was thinking about that actually before I came on.
I was thinking, would that get published today?
I think they'd want it to be kind of sharper and crisper and maybe not as many words.
We seem to have
grown away from words.
In picture books now, they want you to write a picture book in less than 500 words.
So I think they would find it a bit long-winded, maybe.
But I think the essence of it, the beautiful stories, the brilliant characters, I think they would go with that, for sure.
My own favourite character is Eeyore.
Doesn't everybody know an Eeyore?
You know, the glass is never half full with Eeyore.
There's a lovely line somewhere where he's talking about the weather and he says, oh, you know, it's been raining, it's been snowing, but we haven't had an earthquake.
And I just think, I know people like that.
Well, it is a travesty.
I mean, you look at those stories and you think what he does so well as well is that immersion.
You know, you remember when you were seven or eight and you had a book that you loved and you just got lost in it for the day.
And I think big tech is stealing childhood from our children.
Having said that, I'm never a total pessimist about it because you can't afford to be.
We need to be optimistic.
And there are some green shoots.
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