The writer Caryl Phillips , who was himself born abroad, talks to five
British writers who were all born beyond these shores. In this series of conversations, he explores the impact that coming to Britain had on their lives, both personal and professional. In the first programme, he talks to novelist Doris Lessing , who was born in 1919 in what was then Persia and then in 1925 moved to and was brought up in a farm in Southern Rhodesia.
Producer Tony Phillips