Odette Hallowes GC, MBE, part 3

Odette Hallowes GC, MBE, part 3

Personal memories of Odette Hallowes. Odette Hallowes GC, MBE, Legion d’honneur (28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995) was an Allied Intelligence agent during World War 2. In this final part of a three part series, her Granddaughter, Sophie, shares personal memories of Odette. To me and Odette’s other grandchildren, Odette was always just Minou, […]

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Odette Hallowes GC, MBE, part 2

Odette Hallowes GC, MBE, part 2

Odette Hallowes remembered by her granddaughter. Odette Hallowes GC, MBE, Legion d’honneur (28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995) was an Allied Intelligence agent during World War 2. In this second of a three part series, her granddaughter, Sophie, shares Odette’s story. On 16th April 1943, Odette and Peter Churchill were betrayed by a Double […]

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Odette Hallowes GC, MBE

Odette Hallowes GC, MBE

Odette Hallowes remembered by her granddaughter. Odette Hallowes GC, MBE, Legion d’honneur (28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995) was an Allied Intelligence agent during World War 2. In this three part series, her granddaughter, Sophie, shares Odette’s story. Odette was born in 1912 in Northern France and it was never her intention to be […]

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The women of Iceland go on strike

The women of Iceland go on strike

The women of Iceland went on strike to help their struggle for gender equality. On October 24, 1975, Iceland came to a virtual standstill when women took the day off. They left their typewriters and steno pads, put down their paint brushes, music books, and lecture notes, took off their aprons, left the dishes in the sink. […]

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Joan Rivers remembered

Joan Rivers remembered

Joan Rivers Remembered – A Personal Reminiscence from Freedom Chevalier. When I first heard the news about Joan Rivers, my thought was this can’t be really happening.  She was like your favourite aunt, someone you expected to always be there, offering sound, sage and sometimes completely outrageous counsel. She can’t be gone. No one else […]

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Career women: Jane Porter, family lawyer

Career women: Jane Porter, family lawyer

We talk to successful career women. We seek the views of successful career women on life, work, family and everything! This month we talk to Jane Porter, a highly successful family lawyer who runs the family law department at Lester Aldridge. Lester Aldridge LLP is a nationally recognised law firm with offices in London, Bournemouth […]

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Interview with Maureen Duffy, novelist, poet and playwright

Interview with Maureen Duffy, novelist, poet and playwright

Maureen Duffy discusses life and literature. Gaby Robinson-Wright took the opportunity of the Worthing WOW festival to ask Maureen Duffy for her thoughts on a wide range of topics … At the beginning of your career, you entered your first full-length play, Pearson, into a competition for The Observer. Although you didn’t win that particular […]

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Interview with Holland Taylor, actress and playwright

Interview with Holland Taylor, actress and playwright

Emmy Award winning Holland Taylor talks about her greatest accomplishment and giving one’s all. On January 14th, 2013 Holland Taylor celebrated her 70th birthday. Eight weeks later, her self-penned two-act play, ‘Ann” about the legendary Governor of Texas, Ann Richards opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York City’s famed Lincoln Centre. It was […]

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