Alan Paton author of Cry the Beloved Country talking to Hugh Burnett
'Many of my associates were not Christians - they were Jews and Hindus, and non-believers...' Alan Paton lost his passport in 1960 and still thinks his telephone is being tapped. But he's not unhopeful about the future: 'I don't regard a non-racist society as an impossibility - I regard it as an inevitability.'