Dame Rachel De Souza

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518 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 May

Dame Rachel De Souza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Renate.

Yeah, and the nuns re-baptised her, called Renate, which means born again in German.

Leaving her there for seven years with no... My grandmother says she sent letters and things, but my mother wouldn't have known.

She was just brought up as a baby.

So my granny married again.

So she married my lovely step-grandfather's Ukrainian Semen Televny.

And they moved to Skunthorpe, where he worked in the still works in the day, as they did.

And then at night, he was a dissident journalist against the Soviet Union.

So he was very well known.

He was sued by the KGB a number of times.

He was well known in Ukrainian circles.

So when she married again, she brought my mother over.

And I mean, it's hard to imagine.

She is still alive, yes.

She, I think, is always on the look for home.

She's always on the look for, you know, she's moved a lot, travelled a lot.

She's 80 and she's just started her MA in Fine Art at Sheffield, at the University of Sheffield.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, she sees those nuns.

I have a carving in my house.

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