and generous and selfless man. i don t want to make him sound saintly because he wasn t. he was also great fun and a great raconteur and sometimes a merciless mimic and it was great to sit around the table with him and just laugh. so he wasn t saintly but his sound journalism was rooted in values of human decency. i came to think that in george s reporting there was a kind of outstretched hand, the outstretched hand of a kind of shared humanity, human solidarity and he stretched that hand out to almost everybody he reported on. that was the broadcaster alan little remembering george alagiah. milton nkosi also worked closely with george. he s the former bbc africa bureau chief. he spoke to us from johannesburg. first of all, i would like to convey my deepest