Richard

Now, Anne lives in Australia.

She's an academic at the Australian Catholic University.

She's a volunteer with the ATSpeak, which is a community-based language group in inner West Melbourne, and she cooks for Free To Feed, an enterprise that supports refugees and asylum seekers in Australia.

And it was only a few years ago that Anne saw that dramatic and powerful footage of the rescue of her family at sea.

Hello, Anh.

Hi, Richard.

When you cook at this place, Free to Feed, what do you cook?

How does that work, Tex-Mex and Vietnamese?

A lot of chilli, obviously, is the connecting ingredient there, I would think.

Tell me about the town where your family lived when you were little.

And what is this town?

Is it an agricultural town?

What's going on in this town?

Was your family relatively well-to-do then before the communist takeover in the 70s?

portfolio at the time before communism comes and so he really took a liking to my great-grandfather and so he he gave him business so how much protection did that wealth and status afford your family in the town that while the war is raging throughout the 50s and 60s and early 70s between the north and south

How did your parents meet?

So there was a matchmaker involved.

There's a whole culture of that, isn't there?

How did they get on?

So did they court together for a while, go out, and did they end up falling in love even though it was an arranged marriage?