Nothing If Not Interesting. Martin Freeman Was All Ears

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IT TAKES a couple of phone calls and more than a little persuasion before Monika Kinley can find time to chat.

Her diary is very full, she explains, which isn't bad for someone in her mid-80s -

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Nothing If Not Interesting. Martin Freeman Was All Ears

Then, the day before we are due to meet she calls to postpone because she has had a bad fall and needs to recover after medical treatment.

I suggest meeting in a week's time - and she thinks I'm mad.

"Oh, I'll be fine the next day!" she insists. And she is right.

Monika is of the pre-Second World War generation, those who rebuilt lives and reconstructed countries. She took tragedy, personal and global, in her stride and, in the words of the war- time slogan, she kept calm and carried on.

Monika and her family fled the Nazis when the German regime spread their poisonous doctrine an...

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