Kristin Scott Thomas

And then he went off to sea and she was stuck in this tiny little house with pregnant and then with me and then with another one.

Um...

And then she really came into her own when my stepfather was killed because I think that did mess her up quite a lot, I think.

I remember her being massively, massively, massively depressed and just never really leaving her room and not eating.

It was amazing how people...

came in, friends of hers, and how they all rallied round and looked after her.

It was amazing.

But we were both at school at that time, so I didn't see much of that.

And then she sort of, I don't know, something happened, and she just said, I've got...

I've got to live everything.

And she took us to Cyprus for the whole of the Christmas, summer holidays.

Somebody lent her a house.

She managed to blag her way to getting tickets to Cyprus on a flight run by the RAF of service families.

Because you did in those days, you got pretty swiftly cut off.

Anyway, she managed to do that.

And we were out there for six weeks.

We had an absolutely fantastic time.

She'd already learned Greek because she thought she ought to learn some Greek before she took us there.

And we whizzed around in a mini moke and had six weeks in this country that the following year was in civil war.

But it was pretty brave.