Yasmin Alibhai-Brown at Proms at St Jude's Music and Literary Festival

Political journalist and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown will be talking about her new book 'Exotic England,' about the immigrant experience and England's approach to the outside world.

Award-winning political journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown came to Britain from Uganda just before Idi Amin's infamous expulsion of her fellow East African Asians. She currently writes for The Independent and commentates regularly for radio and TV on immigration, diversity and multiculturalism. Her latest book 'Exotic England: the making of a curious nation', published in March, is a surprising love letter to the country from one of its most outspoken immigrants and includes interviews with, among others, Tory MP Jesse Norman; Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary; Brian Sewell, Billy Bragg and Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum. This is sure to be a stimulating and thought-provoking talk, with questions to the author part of the mix.