Petroc Trelawny talks to Suzi Feay

Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny explains how he returned to his Cornish roots to rediscover where he grew up and find out if he still belonged there.

Trelawny says a listener challenging him on his ancestry spurred him to journey again through the county of his birth to recall his own and Cornwall’s past. He visited old mines, ancient churches and places where poets, musicians, architects and filmmakers helped to shape Cornwall’s cultural identity.  And he recalled stories of a loving family full of mysteries and a landscape redolent of ‘Cornwall’s otherness’.

Trelawny grew up on the Lizard peninsula. He presents Breakfast on Radio 3 and has been a presenter on BBC Proms for two decades. He worked on the commentary team for the coronation of Charles III and funeral of Elizabeth II. Here he talks to journalist and reviewer for the FT Suzi Feay.