Madame Fiocca - Part One

Tales of History and Imagination

Nancy Wake was known by many names. The Nazis called her the White Mouse, a resourceful agent of the resistance, who evaded their clutches. Britain’s Special Operations Executive called her Hélène. She was a key member of their Freelance cell, working to bring the Nazis down. To Marseille’s high society, she was Madame Fiocca, an intrepid foreign journalist who fell in love with one of their most eligible bachelors, and subsequently become one of their own. To the French resistance she was the tough as nails Madame Andrée - she could kill a man with her bare hands.

To Australia, the land she fled in her teens she was Nancy Wake - war hero.

This is part one of a Two Part series. Part Two is Here.

Sources this week include: I’ll update fully later, in the meantime, my main text was Nancy Wake by Peter Fitzsimons.

The blog post of the episode is here.

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Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly. This week I recorded covers of
Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster)
Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish)
Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major (Art Noel, Don Pelosi)
and Bless ‘em All (Fred Godfrey, Robert Kewley)
Everything else is mine.

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