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Radio 4,12 mins

Swapping Accra for Portsmouth - "It was sink or swim".

Saturday Live

Available for over a year

George Alagiah discusses swapping a back garden in Accra for a boarding school in Portsmouth; interviewing Nelson Mandela - "he wasn't a very easy interviewee - or a good one"; and his health.

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