Alice Roberts: ‘By the time I’d finished Richard Dawkins I’d left faith behind’
The TV presenter and author on the evolutionary biologists who inspired her, the genius of George Eliot – and fun with Frog and Toad My earliest reading memory The first books I remember were from The Village with Three Corners series Sheila K McCullagh. I loved the – literally – colourful characters, like Johnny Yellow Hat. I was reading with my Grandma, in her garden perhaps, sitting on a small…
In a recent interview with the Guardian Science, TV presenter and author Alice Roberts reflected on her journey from faith to atheism, crediting evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins and George Eliot for playing pivotal roles in her transformation. Roberts shared that her earliest reading memory involved The Village with Three Corners series, which featured colorful characters like Johnny Yellow Hat, and she fondly recalled her grandmother reading to her in the garden surrounded by flowers.
However, it was the Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel that truly resonated with her, as they embodied humor, heart, and simple humanism – themes she carried into her own family life.
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