Podcast appearances and mentions of George Alagiah

Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson is one of Britain's most successful athletes, having won 16 Paralympic medals, including 11 golds. In part two of our conversation, we talk about what Tanni has learnt from moving from being a elite athlete to working in the House of Lords...as well as the wisdom her father gave her, when he told her to think of herself as a 'Venn Diagram'. This is the last episode of our current season. All of our episodes, from every season, are available now and we have a fantastic variety of guests for you to explore if you haven't heard them already including George Alagiah, Richard Curtis, Amber Rudd, The Reverend Richard Coles and Ruth Davidson.This epsiode was produced by Red Bicycle. 

As part of season three, this is a special compilation episode featuring guests from season one and two. In the last couple of years we have had many inspiring conversations with people including Richard Curtis, the late George Alagiah, Amber Rudd, Sian Williams, David Baddiel and many more. You can listen to all of these episodes on our website - www.desperatelyseekingwisdom.com - or whereever you get your podcasts.  But to give you a taste of these conversations, we've compiled a collection of some of the most memorable insights from our guests. First-up, wisdom. What rules do each of these guests live by?This compilation features the following people:Matt Forde, George Alagiah, Isobel Hardman, Ruth Davidson, Reverend Richard Coles, John Simpson, Richard Curtis, Tanya and Nadim Ednan-Laperous, Sian Williams and Kenny Imafidon. 

Herr Fygor Gestalt, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Sherlock, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Made for Love, Foundation, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Paper Girls, Dead City, Daryl Dixon, Fright Fest, The Old Man, Snowfall, The Sixth Commandment, Code of a Killer, Wolf, TMZ, Chat GPT, Samsung A14 4G, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB, Cinema Mathur, Shure Beta 58 A, Scarlet Focusrite 4i4, Soundcraft EPM6, Sunn Amplification Reissue Amps, Toni Basil, My YouTube Mix Tape Playlists Are Being Screwed and I Hate YouTube Shorts, George Alagiah, Bram Moolenaar, Tony Bennet, Sinead O'Connor, Paul Reubens, William Friedkin, Doctor Who

Herr Fygor Gestalt, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Sherlock, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Made for Love, Foundation, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Paper Girls, Dead City, Daryl Dixon, Fright Fest, The Old Man, Snowfall, The Sixth Commandment, Code of a Killer, Wolf, TMZ, Chat GPT, Samsung A14 4G, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB, Cinema Mathur, Shure Beta 58 A, Scarlet Focusrite 4i4, Soundcraft EPM6, Sunn Amplification Reissue Amps, Toni Basil, My YouTube Mix Tape Playlists Are Being Screwed and I Hate YouTube Shorts, George Alagiah, Bram Moolenaar, Tony Bennet, Sinead O'Connor, Paul Reubens, William Friedkin, Doctor Who

John Wilson on George Alagiah, the BBC Journalist and Presenter is remembered by his colleagues Sophie Raworth and John Simpson. Sinead O'Connor, the Irish singer who won worldwide fame with Nothing Compares 2 U. Ann Clwyd, the former Labour Member of Parliament who held frontbench posts in opposition, and campaigned on behalf of Welsh miners and Iraqi Kurds. Tony Bennett, the consummate crooner who sold 50 million records with hits including I Left My Heart In San Francisco. His son and manager Danny Bennett pays tribute. Trevor Francis, the former England footballer who became Britain's first £1million player when he joined Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest. Interviewee: Sophie Raworth Interviewee: John Simpson Interviewee: Danny Bennett Interviewee: Jo Stevens MP Interviewee: Linda Christmas Interviewee: Tony Woodcock Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies Archive used: George Alagiah report on the World Bank, Breakfast Time, BBC One, 27/04/1989; George Alagiah report on 40th Anniversary of Ghana independence, BBC News, 22/11/1997; George Alagiah interview, BBC Radio 5 Live, 27/08/2019; Sinead O Connor interview, MasterTapes (Side A), BBC Radio 4, 15/12/2014; Sinead O'Connor interview, MasterTapes (Side B), BBC Radio 4, 16/12/2014; Ann Clwyd question in House of Commons, PMQ's, BBC One, 24/01/08; Ann Clwyd interview at Tower Colliery Protest, BBC News Wales, 15/04/94; Ann Clwyd interview, Iraq War 10 Years On, BBC News Wales, 26/03/13; Tony Bennett interview, Front Row, BBC Radio 4, 02/07/2011; Trevor Francis interviews, BBC News, 02/10/1972; Trevor Francis goal, Nottingham Forest v Malmo, BBC Sport, 30/05/1979; Brian Clough interview, BBC News, 30/05/1979.

This week comes to you from a castle in Scotland!  With guest Al Smith.  Including Oppenheimer; Israel limits Supreme Court; George Alagiah; the Spanish Election; Russians bomb Odessa;  Greece; World fires; Trevor Francis, Mbappe and Messi;  X; Sesame Street; a new Transgender crime in the UK; the BMA's hypocrisy; Elevation church ; Preaching with a Scottish accent; Alaister Begg; Trans abortions; SEEK 2;  Bob Dylan sells his Scottish mansion....with music from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the Greek national anthem, Peter, Paul and Mary; Iron Maiden; Shania Twain and Bob Dylan. 

Jemma and Marina open with tributes to the BBC's George Alagiah and singer Sinéad O'Connor who we both sadly lost this week - RIP.  Then it's onto a story that has rightly been dominating the news this week (apart from the frog-faced old man who can't bank with Coutts) - and that's climate change. They chat through the hot (and not so hot) takes of what's happening in Rhodes and Palermo, with expert insight from Professor Richard Betts and...Julie, who had a wonderful holiday in Crete and doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.  The ladies discuss the insane potential row back on green policies from Labour and The Conservatives and discuss the very real possibility that the general election could see marginal seats being fought as de facto referenda on green policies - joy. Because what should one do when the world is burning? Well, you ditch your green plans and net zero targets because fewer than 500 people in Uxbridge and S.Ruislip resulted in a shock by-election Tory hold…obvs. Then it's onto Lord Frost (or Dave as Marina refers to him) and the terrifying climate denial nonsense that is now being spouted in the House of Lords. Because that's what happens when you let someone like Boris Johnson put unelected bureaucrat bezzies into our upper chamber. Then it's a wrap - with a topical pudding from The Exploding Heads.  Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At the end of the show a question from Dominic Everett. Recommendations: Andrea: Jude and Diana The only mention of Jude in Nova Scotia's official history relates to her death: a slave-owning family was brought to trial for her murder in 1801. They were acquitted despite overwhelming evidence that they were guilty. Sharon Robart-Johnson pays tribute to such archival glimpses of enslaved people by re-creating the fullness of sisters Jude and Diana's survival, emphasizing their joys alongside their hardship. She stories their movements through the U.S. to Nova Scotia, Canada, with the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists in 1783. As a child, Jude is sold away and then, by a lucky turn of fate, reunited with her fiercely loving family. Jude's experiences harden her into a rebel who resists injustice without heeding consequences, and after her death, Diana is left alone to deal with racist and sexual violence. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/jude-and-diana Eamonn: Juan Carlos Downfall of a King Four-part Sky Original docuseries shedding light on former King of Spain Juan Carlos I, the scandal surrounding his personal life and allegations of corruption - leading up to his abdication in 2014. https://www.nowtv.com/watch/juan-carlos-downfall-of-the-king/iYEQYZ6xzLBzHSkfjUoxrb/iYsxVNyjMDcpBDJrL47BVS/seasons/1 Stuart: Oppenheimer The story of American scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. https://www.oppenheimermovie.co.uk/ The Lost Salt Gift of Blood - Alistair Macleod A collection of 12 stories by this Canadian author. All of the stories are set in Cape Breton on the Atlantic Coast, in the communities of emigre Scots highlanders whose way of life has scarcely changed in hundreds of years. https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-lost-salt-gift-of-blood/alistair-macleod/joyce-carol-oates/9780224032193

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Today on The Day After, (00:00) (08:18) Headlines: Rishi Sunak says climate targets must not impose 'unnecessary' costs, Judge rules Suella Braverman broke law by denying asylum seekers £3 a week, BBC journalist and reporter George Alagiah passes away (13:32) What you Saying? Should paternity tests be made mandatory??

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George Alagiah died on July 24  2023 Before George Alagiah was known as a BBC newsreader he was a working TV journalist. In this conversation recorded more than 20 years ago he recounts what Rwanda meant to him. Not a near perfect place to be deported to, but a country that had experienced the most horrendous genocide. He recounts the effect of constant propaganda. How people can be turned against each other by daily repetition of untruths.  Couldn't ever happen here ......... could it? George Alagiah reveals himself to be both thought provoking and wise. 

Who's in and who's out of the new PM's cabinet? Rishi Sunak has been assembling his new top team - and some familiar faces have been brought back into the fold. The BBC's Chris Mason and Vicki Young join Adam to talk about the top appointments and look at who's been snubbed. And newsreader George Alagiah discusses the significance of the UK's first British-Asian prime minister. This episode of Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn and Miranda Slade. Emma Crowe is the technical producer and the assistant editor is Sam Bonham.

The cancer campaigner, blogger, broadcaster and former teacher, Dame Deborah James, has died aged 40. She had been receiving end-of-life care for bowel cancer at home and had raised millions for cancer research. She hosted the BBC podcast 'You, Me and the Big C' and was given a damehood in May in recognition of her fundraising. Today's Amol Rajan speaks to BBC News presenter George Alagiah, who is living with bowel cancer, about Dame Deborah. (Image: Dame Deborah James, Credit: Getty Images)

Seven years ago, the BBC TV presenter and journalist George Alagiah was diagnosed with bowel cancer. The prognosis wasn't good, and he was told to get his affairs in order.George speaks movingly and frankly about coping with the knowledge that his life and relationships will be cut short, and what living in the shadow of a terrible disease has helped him appreciate.

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. George was in conversation with a fellow star of the BBC, Petroc Trelawny, at North Cornwall Book Festival 2021.

Fat Owl. Thin patience. Something's gotta give.Cast includes Bethan Cullinane, James Corrigan & Daisy Badger.

The broadcaster and journalist answers the question. Producer: Ryan Wilson

George Alagiah speaks to mum-of-three Sarah Bates, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer aged just 39, and oncologist Professor Mark Saunders, from The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, to discuss the impact of bowel cancer on people under the age of 50. The trio discuss a range of issues highlighted in our Never Too Young report (https://bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/Never_Too_Young_2020_Bowel_Cancer_UK.pdf) and the importance of GPs being aware that, although rare, young people can be diagnosed with the disease. This podcast was recorded in February 2020, prior to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown.

Host and BBC newsreader George Alagiah talks to fellow bowel cancer patient Beth Purvis, our Chief Executive Genevieve Edwards and Clinical Oncologist Prof. Richard Adams. They discuss a wide range of subjects, including shielding, coming out of lockdown, the recovery of cancer services, and the impact of a cancer diagnosis on family. For all our support and guidance on bowel cancer and coronavirus please visit our website (https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/news-and-blogs/coronavirus-faqs/) .

This week's guest has topped the leaderboard for mum and what a pleasure it was to have the charming & delightful George Alagiah on Table Manners. Zooming in from Hackney, the long standing BBC broadcaster, journalist and best-selling author tells us about his upbringing in Ghana, his experiences of being a foreign correspondent, interviewing Nelson Mandela & his love for writing thrillers!We hear all about George’s Nando's order, his mum's Sri Lankan cooking & how he learnt his Table Manners from his aunt Greta. What a joy! x See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The BBC newsreader and journalist returns to Headliners to tell Nihal how his cancer treatment is going, what he makes of the recent increase in exposure for the Black Lives Matter movement and how he’s been coping during lockdown.

When Karen Blackett was growing up, her dad told her that, as a black female, she'd have to work twice as hard to make it to the top. Karen is now UK Country Manager for WPP, the world’s largest marketing services group, and Chairwoman of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK, was appointed Race Equality Business Champion by the Prime Minister in 2018, and regularly ranks among Britain's most influential business leaders in multiple lists.Karen is in conversation with David Abraham, Founder and CEO of Wonderhood Studios, and former chief executive of Channel 4. Their fascinating conversation, recorded live at the Migration Museum in London on 25 November 2019, explores Karen's memories of growing up in Reading, aka 'mini Barbados', how her background and upbringing equipped her with the skills and resilience that enabled her to rise to the top of a sector dominated by white, privately educated men, why she's a passionate advocate for the importance of diversity at all levels of society, and more.Migrants Mean Business is a podcast series from the Migration Museum, in association with Allianz Global Investors, presented by George Alagiah and featuring conversations with some of Britain’s most successful business leaders – all of whom have immigrant backgrounds.This podcast was recorded and produced by David Craigie, who also made the theme music.If you like this podcast, please subscribe and help us to spread the word.For more information on the Migration Museum, please visit migrationmuseum.org, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

George Alagiah interviews Steve Clark from Caversham who has stage four bowel cancer, along with oncologist Professor Mark Saunders from The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, about chemotherapy to treat the disease. 

George Alagiah interviews Greig Trout from Wokingham who had stage two bowel cancer, along with Professor Claire Foster from the University of Southampton, about looking after your emotional health and wellbeing. 

George Alagiah interviews Barbara Hibbert from Harrogate who has stage four bowel cancer, along with surgeon Nicola Fearnhead from Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, about surgery to treat the disease. 

In the second of our International Men's Day 2019 specials, Hannah and Jen caught up with George Alagiah – journalist, author, and main dude at the BBC News at Six. They chatted living in a relentless news cycle, the masculinity of a newsroom, and George's new book, The Burning Land. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For 15 years, George Alagiah has been a familiar face on our television screens as the presenter of the BBC's Six O'Clock News. Before that, he was one of the corporation's most respected foreign correspondents. Before that, he was born in what was then Ceylon, the only boy in a family of four sisters, and was sent to boarding school in England at the age of 12. George joins me to talk about his self-perceived failures at fatherhood, the challenges of reporting from the front-line in times of humanitarian crisis, his nuanced relationship with racial identity and how he dealt with racist incidents in his youth. He also talks movingly about his bowel cancer diagnosis in 2014, which has seen him undergo over 40 rounds of chemotherapy and make his peace with death. What struck me most about George was his elegance: in person, but also in expression. He has no anger or bitterness or stored-up resentment, and this to me is the definition of a quiet sort of heroism. (Obviously I also asked him about BBC equal pay and if he'd watched Anchorman.) I loved this interview. It moved me and made me think. I hope it does the same to you.   * The How To Fail Live tour is almost over. SNIFF! There are limited tickets left for Belfast with Sinead Burke (14th November) and Gateshead with Jess Phillips MP (8th December). Dublin with Amy Huberman (15th November) has SOLD OUT! Thank you! These events are not recorded as podcasts so the only way to be there is to book tickets via www.faneproductions.com/howtofail *  The Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling book of the podcast, How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong by Elizabeth Day, is out now and is available here. * George Alagiah's novel, The Burning Land, is out now and available here. *  This season of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp and sponsored by Sweaty Betty. Sweaty Betty are offering listeners 20% off full-price items with the code HOWTOFAIL To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com *  Social Media: Elizabeth Day @elizabday George Alagiah @BBCAlagiah Sweaty Betty @sweatybetty                          

Broadcaster, journalist and author George Alagiah talks us through his favourite books and authors... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Since 2007, George has been the presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch in 2010. A specialist on Africa and the developing world, Alagiah has interviewed, among others, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.George's debut novel is set in the post-apartheid South African land grabs. It’s a sharp and nuanced thriller with a strong female lead. Dealing with themes of political activism, xenophobia, the environment and, most importantly, what happens when events spiral out of control, it’s incredibly timely – and is also based entirely on events George saw but was unable to report on while a BBC correspondent there. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

George talks about his debut novel and Craig brings in his single Do You Miss Me Much.

It's quiz night at 5Nerds Towers with PMac hosting a general knowledge Quiz between Pete, Matt & Paul T... Pete has a chat about The fiend and Matt explains the difference between a Ghost & Phantom poo also his fondness of George Alagiah. Pmac tells a story about his "friend" Note - There is a sound issue with Pete being rather quiet so whacked the sound up so don't do it too loud.

Today we have something particularly special on the pod, in the form of George Alagiah's 2019 Noirwich Lecture. George is of course best known for his journalistic work with the BBC, in particular as presenter of BBC News at Six. He's just released his first work of fiction, The Burning Land, and in his lecture he talks about the power of fiction to better illuminate facts, and how the book complements the factual work he's done as a journalist throughout his career. Hosted by Simon Jones. Find out more about Noirwich: https://noirwich.co.uk What we do: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk UEA: https://www.uea.ac.uk/ Music by Bennet Maples.

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by the actor Timothy Spall whose latest role is as LS Lowry. He describes his own passion for painting, the relationship between Lowry and his mother, and that with his own mother - who supported his acting ambitions. Footballer, Eniola Aluko won more than 100 caps for England. She explains how she started playing football on an estate in Birmingham as the only girl amongst a team of boys who named her Eddie. The pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason was spotted by Elton John and is now embarking on a brilliant career as a soloist and ensemble player. She describes life as the eldest of seven gifted musicians including brother Sheku who played at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The broadcaster, journalist and writer George Alagaiah, discusses his first thriller, which is set in post-apartheid South Africa from where he once reported. The actor and comedian Doon MacKichan shares her Inheritance Tracks - Parigi o Cara Ah Gran Dio, from La Traviata, performed by Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland and What Is and What Should Never Be by Led Zeppelin. Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Eleanor Garland

George Alagiah talks to Nihal about dealing with cancer, his journalism career and his new novel: The Burning Land.

At the age of 24, Sir Lloyd Dorfman opened a small currency exchange shop in London. His company, Travelex, went on to become the world’s leading foreign exchange specialist.Lloyd and George’s wide-ranging conversation, recorded live in London on 1 July, explores Lloyd’s business and philanthropic career, his family roots and Jewish identity, the essence of entrepreneurialism and whether one ever stops being a ‘migrant’.Migrants Mean Business is a podcast series from the Migration Museum, in association with Allianz Global Investors, presented by George Alagiah and featuring conversations with some of Britain’s most successful business leaders – all of whom have immigrant backgrounds.This podcast was recorded and produced by David Craigie, who also made the theme music.If you like this podcast, please subscribe and help us to spread the word.For more information on the Migration Museum, please visit migrationmuseum.org, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

To kick off our Migrants Mean Business series, we’ve got a cracking conversation with one of the most charismatic and recognisable business leaders of the past few decades – Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. His conversation with Daniel Franklin, executive and diplomatic editor of The Economist, ranges from shipping to dog walking, suing Netflix to going head to head with Ryanair's Michael O'Leary.Migrants Mean Business is a podcast series from the Migration Museum, in association with Allianz Global Investors, presented by George Alagiah and featuring conversations with some of Britain’s most successful business leaders – all of whom have immigrant backgrounds.This podcast was recorded and produced by David Craigie, who also made the theme music.If you like this podcast, please subscribe and help us to spread the word.For more information on the Migration Museum, please visit migrationmuseum.org, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

George Alagiah interviews Stacey Heale from Southampton, whose husband Greg has bowel cancer, along with the charity’s Chief Executive, Deborah Alsina MBE, on what it’s like caring for a loved one with the disease.  

George Alagiah interviews Andrea Robson, 39 from London, who has stage two bowel cancer and a stoma, along with stoma nurse Lisa Allison, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pouch Care at Northwick Park and St Mark’s Hospital, London, on managing a stoma.  

George Alagiah interviews Matthew Wiltshire, 51 from Surrey, who has stage four bowel cancer, and the charity’s Chief Executive, Deborah Alsina MBE, about living well with advanced bowel cancer. 

The UK has one of the highest recorded rates of acid attacks in the world, nearly 500 cases in 2016. Most of the victims are men and most have corrosive liquid, typically acid or bleach, squirted into their faces while they are being mugged for their phone, bag or car. Andrew Keene was attacked in London last year while he sat in his car, and blinded by a robber who then drove off in his car. He's had five operations, including two corneal grafts, to try to restore the sight in his right eye. Dr Mark Porter talks to Andrew at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, where sight-saving eye surgery was pioneered over sixty years ago. This hospital set up the UK's first Eye Bank for donor eyes and it is from these donations that eyes, damaged like Andrew's, are repaired using grafts. Mark hears about the shortage of donated corneas which mean long waiting lists for eye surgery and Eye Bank head Dr Nigel Jordan tells him they're having to import donor eyes from the USA to meet demand. BBC News anchor George Alagiah has gone public with the news that his bowel cancer has come back three years after it was diagnosed at an advanced stage. He has questioned why screening starts at different ages in different parts of the UK. If he lived in Scotland where the bowel cancer screening programme starts at 50, up to 10 years before the rest of the country, he would have been screened earlier and his cancer might have been picked up earlier, making it easier to treat. Inside Health's Dr Margaret McCartney discusses the complexities involved in rolling out national screening programmes and tells Mark why there's a difference in Scotland and the rest of the UK about the starting age for bowel screening. Until a couple of years ago, children who were born without a limb, or those who lost a limb after illness or injury, could get a traditional prosthesis, or artificial limb fitted, but it was a limb of the most basic kind which would enable them to walk, but not to run or do sports. But thanks to money released into a special fund by the Department of Health in England, for the last 18 months these children have been fitted with the high-tech futuristic-looking prostheses - racing blades - that allow them to run, jump and compete in all sorts of activities and sports. Mark visits a paediatric rehabilitation clinic at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore and meets the children who are benefiting from these new activity blades.

Lenny Henry and George Alagiah look at how migration and exile are explored in Shakespeare’s play, The Comedy or Errors, and discuss how the situations experienced by the characters might be mirrored today.

Francois Pienaar was captain of the South African rugby team when it won the World Cup in 1995. Before the game Nelson Mandela walked into the stadium in Johannesburg wearing the Springbok rugby jersey, which was once seen as a symbol of white minority rule. It came to be viewed as a defining moment for the emerging ‘Rainbow Nation'. Francois Pienaar went on to develop a friendship with Nelson Mandela. George Alagiah asks him whether the hope and optimism generated that day is still alive today.(Photo: Springbok captain Francois Pienaar (R) receives the Rugby World Cup from President Nelson Mandela at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, June 1995. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)