Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, and has lived in India, Tanzania, Nigeria, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. His latest book Migrants: The Story Of Us All, has been widely praised. He is a former BBC correspondent in India and continues to have links with the BBC. He is the author of two books about India, Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity and A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes; a guide book (Blue Guide India), and has translated a nineteenth century French novel The Marvellous (but Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran.