Career
He is well known for his interviews with politicians, which have included Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Obote, Olusegun Obasanjo, Yoweri Museveni, Sam Nujoma, Kenneth Kaunda, and Thabo Mbeki. Born in 1944 in Nottingham, White took a placement in Cameroon with VSO after graduating from Cambridge. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1960s.
Apart from his work as a journalist on African affairs, he has worked in educational broadcasting and on the British domestic culture and arts programme, Kaleidoscope.
He is also a published playwright, with work broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 2000 he was awarded an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for his outstanding contribution to the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service.