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Marc Wolff

Marc Wolff

This month's interview is with Marc Wolff, professional helicopter and aerial stunt pilot. When Marc's not travelling around the world for filming projects, he lives in Mougins with his wife and two children, Lily and Henry and Bruno their Airedale. It was during one of his stays here that we met up and asked him about his work with film companies, how it all started and what brought him to France originally.

"I've had a long association over many years with France, coming here to work once or twice a year, many, many years ago; I had a girlfriend in Paris, so I learnt to speak a little bit of French and I always wanted to live here and just increase the experience. I then lived in Cornwall for thirteen years where our children were born.  One winter it rained for 96 days in a row and my wife just had enough of the weather. I travel all the time so could get away from it but she couldn't and simply said she wanted to move to France. I wanted the kids to learn another culture, another language and so I said 'Okay'.

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Maureen Emerson

Maureen Emerson

As always, I continue to be struck by the total dedication and strength authors have when researching material for their book. As I talked to Maureen, it became clear that here was an author who braved numerous situations and held steadfast for eight years to produce, what is to me, an impressive tour-de-force and biography of two remarkable women; Winifred Fortescue and Elisabeth Starr.

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Zela Terry

Zela Terry

Struggling with a somewhat hectic schedule in February, Zela kindly agreed to take time away from her busy engagements and meet me in Nice. Our location? The very splendid Negresco Hotel on the Promenade des Anglais. Once settled in our plush seats and having each succombed to an irresistable chocolate gateau, I began asking Zela how her love of chamber music came about. She smiled and explained how it had always characterised her professional profile even from an early age by performing with her sisters, pianist Mona and violinist Lesa, as the Terry Trio.

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Jonathan Schiffman

Jonathan Schiffman

As their 26 year old son, Jonathan, left their New York City apartment to start his Fulbright Scholarship in music composition in Paris, his parents, Helene and Sheldon Schiffman had two worries: the first was that relations between France and United States were now at the lowest ebb in years and second was the fear of (mostly anti-Zionist) anti-Semitism in addition to anti-Americanism reports in the U.S. on an almost daily basis.

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Jil Bartley

Jil Bartley

Born near London, England in 1933, Jil was just six years old when she was sent away from home and found herself in a boarding school for the very first time. With the threat of World War II many families were torn apart as children where ushered away from cities and into the safety of the English countryside. Like them she was devasted.

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