Suzy Henderson

I hope you enjoy watching the first instalment of Nancy Wake, SOE heroine who helped hundreds of people flee the Germans in Nazi-occupied France while she lived in Marseille. In 1943, she became an evader, fleeing across the Pyrenees into Spain. From there, she travelled to Gibraltar and sailed to England where she eventually joined SOE. The rest, as they say, is history.

February 1933: Nancy Wake is a gregarious twenty-year-old looking for adventure. Having fled her unhappy family home in Sydney, she becomes a journalist and is thrilled when she is posted to Paris. The city is glamorous, brimming with journalists, artists, and a growing number of refugees.  Later, in the French Riviera, she uncovers more than news following a chance encounter with wealthy industrialist, Henri Fiocca. Their relationship blossoms as Hitler makes waves across Europe. While on an assignment in Vienna in 1938, she witnesses Nazis whipping Jews on the street and she vows to fight for justice if ever the opportunity arises. When Henri is called to the Front to fight, Nancy, determined to help the war effort, joins the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Every day she witnesses atrocities. When Paris falls, Nancy flees the German oppressors and returns to Marseille. France is a nation defeated; its people are in despair. A chance encounter with a British offic