Natasha's SA connection

Natasha Kaplinsky, BBC TV presenter, spent her early years in Kenya. She was brought up in Barcombe, Sussex, and studied English at Oxford University. Her father, Raphael Malcolm, who born in South Africa. Together with his wife, psychotherapist Catherine, they left the country after opposing apartheid. Natasha was born 09 September 1972 in Brighton and a year later the family moved to Kenya until Natasha was six. Back in England they settled in the Sussex town of Lewes. Raphael is a Sussex University economics professor.