Laurene Laverne

Your parents, Louise and Alphonse, ran a bistro, Le Croix d'Or.

What was it like?

Were you helping out at the bistro?

Your parents worked incredibly hard.

Did they ever have time for you to do things together as a family or take holidays?

So the village was dominated by church.

How often did you go to mass?

It sounds quite austere.

What was the impact of that environment on you?

It must have shaped you.

You're a post-war baby, of course, and being on the border, the Alsace had suffered a huge amount in the years just before you arrived.

Many locals were conscripted by the German army and forced to fight against their own people.

And the trauma would still have been very fresh in your childhood.

Were you aware of what the community had been through?

It's time for your second disc.

What are we going to hear and why have you chosen this today?

John Lennon and Imagine.

Arsene Wenger, your village doesn't sound like the kind of place you were expected to leave when you grew up.

What were your parents' aspirations for you?

What was the turning point?