Patricia Forde
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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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I think we know the benefits.
We know that in terms of an education, children who read for pleasure do far better.
They get on better in life generally, the research shows us.
And this one killed me.
The research also says that children who read for pleasure at the age of 10 will be happier
Yeah, and me too.
But that's the thing, you know, with the phones, there's an awful lot of blaming of children about phones, you know.
Oh, they've no interest in anything else, they're always on their phones.
When I was writing An Oak, I took a bus from Mallon to Mizzen with...
30 writers and illustrators for children and we went to schools we met i think 3 000 children along the west coast and those children when given the opportunity love books they love stories they love reading they love talking about books so it's not that the children have changed the children are the same but big tech has moved in on childhood and they are stealing their childhood you know yourself when you're doom scrolling
you end up feeling like your spirit has been quenched.
And it certainly quenches your imagination.
Yeah, we need to be reading to babies from the very beginning.
And we talk about children being school ready.
Well, if you take a child who has cuddled up with somebody who loves them and read books for that first five years and compare that to a child who has never had a book read to them and one in five Irish children under the age of four are not being read to, those children don't start on a level playing field.
One child is way ahead of the other already.
And you see, I think people mistake as well the idea of that the reading is somehow going to be educational.
But it's also about having fun with a child that kind of breeds trust and bonding.
So it has a deep psychological effect.
You know, they say stuff that childhood is really short, but it lasts forever as well.
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