Viewpoint: What it's like to be mixed-race in Britain
Mixed-race people once faced discrimination and hostility in Britain, so how much have things changed?
It's only when Frances and I go back and look at our wedding album that we realise quite what a meeting of cultures our marriage was. Not so much for the two of us but for our parents. My mum in her red and gold sari and Mary, my mother-in-law, in her floral patterned suit – it sort of sums up the journey the two families were making.