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Conversations with a Countess...and stories of being related to Kamahl, Tanita Tikaram and working with Agatha Christie's niece.
Season 1
Episode 264
Published 3 weeks, 2 days ago
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Dr Mary Anne Whiting continues her travel reports from London, where she caught up with a dear friend, Countess Tikaram Sumitra de Brouchoven. Sumi speaks about her missionary education in Fiji, travelling to London at 16 and deciding to stay, and of her meeting a Belgium Count whom she would marry. Sumi also speaks about her joining FANY's, working with Toni Christie, undercover agents at the Special Forces Club, Nancy Wake and her being related to singers Kamahl and Tanita Tikaram.