Children's radio presenter Rebecca Long on tuning your kids into books

Helen O’Callaghan talks to Rebecca Long, who presents The Word on RTÉjr Radio.

REBECCA LONG is named after the character in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Rebecca’s mum read the 1903 American children’s classic when she was 12 and loved it, so it was inevitable Rebecca would love it too.

With that start, it’s no surprise that the Wexford woman would be passionate about reading. Her mum read to her every night, without fail. “As though it was the most important thing in the world – and it was.”