Geoffrey Roberts
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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Right.
Okay.
So, so Kathy, Kathy has a very interesting wartime journey, of course, you know, at the age of 23, she joined her father Avril in London, May, 1941.
Obviously this is before the United States enters the war.
Britain is still being bombed.
Her father's in London to facilitate the Lend-Lease program to Britain.
So she comes over to be her father's aide, basically.
But she's also working as a journalist as well.
So she's a war reporter while she's in London between 1941 and 1943.
And then Avril is appointed American Ambassador to the United States, and she goes to the United States.
And, of course, in the end, Russia, she has all kinds of interesting encounters, adventures, including, as you mentioned...
She was a champion skier.
She actually skied in the Moscow ski championships in 1941.
In fact, came third in the women's event.
And she did all kinds of other things while she was in Russia.
You know, she's generally the most, the best known American woman in Russia, apart perhaps from Eleanor Roosevelt.
Well, I'm not sure she speaks very fluent Russian, but she certainly learned Russian.
She learned Russian sufficiently to give toast and to have conversations with people, which is more than most people that went to Moscow during the war did.
Now, you asked a question about her father.
Yes, that's an interesting question.
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