Lorraine Kelly
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How did Lorraine Kelly's family inspire her lifelong love of reading?
Today on the bookshelf, we are joined by one of Britain's best loved broadcasters. I love her too, as it happens, Lorraine Kelly. She's a journalist, she's a television presenter, she's a Sunday Times best-selling author. And it's her warms, really, and let's face it, authenticity that has made her one of the most trusted voices on television. And through broadcasting, documentaries, and now her outrageously successful books, she has built a career around telling other people's stories. But her latest novel, The Island Secret, follows the success of her best selling debut which is called The Island Swimmer, which many of you will have read. So today we're discovering the books that have helped to shape her own story and what a pleasure.
I really mean it. Lorraine to see you here today. Lorraine Kelly, thanks for coming in to see.
Oh, it's a joy. Talking boots I know. My goodness You're
wearing the jumper, you you you came on brand. Uh I I think about for for a lot of people, they see uh a a TV show host uh you know in the chair on the couch doing the interviews that you do down through the year, some very intense human interest, some rock and roll, whatever it might be. But we don't necessarily always get an insight. And the more I've met, I've met you a couple of times and we've spoken, I realize you are a proper proper bookworm. You are a proper like you're you're you're a bibliophile, let's face it. And I that that you you couldn't really see that down through the years as much. I mean you've got a sense of it for sure. Where d where is this from? We always begin in in the house when you're a young child.
Child. What's happening? What's happening?
Well, what's happening is I grew up in a house of books.
Correct.
You know, I really did. I mean my mum and dad didn't have very much money and they had me when they were very, very, very young, so so young, uh, seventeen.
Yes.
Um and I always thought I was a miracle baby because I was uh my mum and dad got married in July and I was born in November. So I thought I was this terribly premature miracle child.
Well
of course they had to skedaddle up the aisle um and that was fine. But they yeah, they w they they were so close to me in age as well. Um that that was an amazing thing. But they taught me to read and write before I went to primary school. So and I grew up, like books were just always there, you know, there was always reading material in the house. And it's the best gift that they ever gave me was huge insight. Hu huge
insight for two teenagers. And they were young teenagers. Yes. Uh to to say, right, we are having a child at this young age, but we're gonna instill this in her.
Yeah.
So it it begs the question where did that come from?
think it was uh both of my parents but my dad was one of these really self educated uh working class West of Scotland men. You know, he was very, very well read. He knew something about everything, you know, he r he really was. And I think in another life he should have gone to university. Um and he should have gone on to be an academic. He he definitely should have. But you know, that just didn't happen back then in the in the 'cause I was born in nineteen fifty nine. So in the late fifties that just didn't happen to young men like him. You know, they were put to a trade and he was actually a a T V engineer, believe it or not, Dad was in tele.
Yeah, yeah. So it was inevitable, you know. So it was inevitable, you know. I know. We
always ha although we always had televisions that didn't work, we always had to bang on the top of them, you know, to actually make them work or or twist the aerial round as we used to have, you know, like with a with an old coat hanger in it. Yes, yes, the ramen. Yeah, really it was from them and I was just always encouraged to read. And then when I was probably about eight or nine I found the library. I found the library in Bridgeton in the east end of Glasgow. So it's moved from the Godballs to Bridgeton. We had an inside toilet, we were very poor. So I walked into this library and there was the world.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Lorraine Kelly's family inspire her lifelong love of reading?
0:13–5:55
2
Why did Lorraine choose journalism over university?
5:55–10:53
3
Which childhood books and library experiences shaped Lorraine Kelly as a reader?
10:53–16:11
4
How did Star Trek and George Orwell's 1984 influence Lorraine Kelly?
16:11–22:21
5
Why does Orwell's 1984 still matter in debates about truth and journalism?
22:21–27:08
6
How did Lorraine Kelly begin her journalism and television career?
27:08–32:17
7
What makes Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition a story of leadership and survival?
32:17–37:17
8
How have family, grief, and writing novels shaped Lorraine Kelly's story?
37:17–42:03