{
  "id": 2344054,
  "title": "Alice Roberts: ‘By the time I’d finished Richard Dawkins I’d left faith behind’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/alice-roberts-by-the-time-id-finished-richard-dawkins-id-left-faith",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T09:00:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/21/alice-roberts-by-the-time-id-finished-richard-dawkins-id-left-faith-behind"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}