Patricia Forde

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460 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

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And I do think we've made them too busy sometimes.

Mm.

And I worry about creativity because I know I became a creative kind of person because I was bored there for most, if not all of my childhood.

You were forced to do stuff yourself.

I was one of six girls.

And really, if you told my mother you were bored, her answer would be great because there's hoovering to be done.

So we didn't we didn't confess to being bored, but we were bored.

And when you're bored, what do you fall back on?

You know, you fall back on your own head.

That's all you have.

And in your head, you make up stuff.

And out of that, I think, comes all kinds of creativity.

Yeah.

I'm a great believer in a philosophy.

It's very prevalent, I think, in France about falling over art.

That we shouldn't have to go looking indoors for art.

We should fall over it.

We shouldn't have to make a plan or an appointment or book a ticket.

We should walk down the street and fall over art.

And I often say to parents at home, one thing I found was really good is to leave books on the kitchen table,

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