Live Podcast Q&A
SBS live chat with Chris Thrall It was a great pleasure to be invited back on Chris’ podcast for a second time. We covered new topics and the Q&A session with the viewers also addressed a few unanswered questions.
Films & Scripts
Finding Susan Part 3
Paris – next stop Hollywood Susan soon warmed to the idea of writing a book about her life, in particular revealing her secret love affair with her French Foreign Legion boss, General Koenig. The first task was to find a writer. I didn’t want to attempt it myself because, frankly, I wasn’t remotely good enough …
Finding Susan Part 2
From Washington DC to Paris Susan Travers : 1944 I decide the first step in my search for Susan Travers, to find out if she was indeed still alive, was to write to the French Embassy in Washington DC. It was three months before I received a reply but it was great news. Susan was …
Finding Susan Part 1
Forget Beau Geste . . . Let’s Find Susan Instead I was living in Malibu at the time. A small house overlooking the Pacific Ocean. I’ve attached a pic. Yeah, be jealous – it was a cool house, perfect for a writer. Completely secluded. I spent more time in LA in those days than I …
Tomorrow to be brave
Susan Travers, the only woman ever to have served in the French Foreign Legion. The story of how she played the most pivotal role in saving the lives of 3,000 Legionnaires and various other British and Australian troops during the evacuation of Bir Hakiem under attack from General Irwin Rommel in the desert war of …
