Sinead Moriarty

I was so proud of her.

It's just ridiculous.

I mean, what she has been through and what she's achieved.

So people are amazing and kids are amazing and they're resilient.

And I just want them to know that and to understand that.

And that compassion and empathy and tolerance are so important and they're superpowers.

Oh, God, yeah.

And they're very, very passionate about things that they believe in and characters that they feel were hard done by or should have got more airtime or whatever it might be.

It's absolutely brilliant.

It is the most joyful space.

I didn't expect it to be so joyful.

I just love being with children that age because they just make you feel so hopeful about the world.

Yeah.

And what's really worrying is there was a survey done recently and something like 48 or 50 percent of adults in England and the UK no longer reach their kids because it's not fun.

And I don't know what fun is, but for me, reading to my kids when they were younger was the best part of the day.

So that's very frightening.

That's the trick we all use.

God only knows.

Anyway, I suppose so it's more important now than ever to keep children reading, because as we all know, I've got teenagers, once they get phones, they fall off a cliff.

So I feel passionately that we have to get children reading at a young age.