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Friday 15th June:

In an exclusive interview to mark the release of her new film Tell No One, Gavin Esler talks to acclaimed actress Kristin Scott Thomas. Though regarded as a quintessentially English actress, Scott Thomas has mad her home in Paris since her late teens.

She made the move after a teacher at the London drama school she attended told her that she would never make it as an actress.

She went on to star in films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, The English Patient, The Horse Whisperer and Gosford Park. She talks to Gavin Esler about the advantages of living and working in France.