George Alagiah in conversation with Petroc Trelawny
b'Colombo-born George Alagiah is familiar to millions as a BBC journalist and newscaster and, more recently, as a figurehead for cancer patients and campaigner for improved cancer screening. He is the author of two memoirs charting his family story and the process of becoming an Englishman: A Passage to Africa and A Home from Home: from Immigrant Boy to English Man but has now turned novelist with his well-received thriller of murky dealings in post-apartheid South Africa, The Burning Land.\\n\\nGeorge was in conversation with a fellow star of the BBC, Petroc Trelawny, at North Cornwall Book Festival 2021.'