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🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Lauren Laverne talks to Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE in a programme first broadcast in 2020.
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0:00.0 | I'm Kim Ketrau and I want to tell you about my new podcast a new audio drama telling the history of the CIA from the inside out. |
0:09.0 | The United States of America was suddenly its worst domestic attack. |
0:14.0 | He's got to convince Congress to give him an open checkbook now. |
0:18.0 | America has suffered its worst domestic attack of the 20th century at Pearl Harbor. |
0:23.0 | How do we make contact with the NKGB? |
0:27.0 | Central Intelligence, starring me, Kim Kertral, Ed Harris, and Johnny Flynn. |
0:31.0 | There's $50,000 in it for you if you say yes. |
0:34.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:38.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Laura Levern here. |
0:44.0 | We're taking our summer break. |
0:45.0 | So until we're back on air, we're showcasing a few programs from our archive. |
0:49.0 | As usual, the music's been shortened for right reasons. |
0:52.0 | This week's guest is the broadcaster and |
0:54.9 | politician Baroness Floella Benjamin who was awarded the Baffto Fellowship this year. |
0:59.7 | I cast her away in 2020. My castaway this week is the broadcaster and politician Baroness Floella Benjamin, |
1:27.8 | a beloved presenter of children's television since the mid 70s. |
1:31.6 | For those of us who grew up with her, she was one of the family, as much a part of British |
1:35.9 | childhood then as school dinners, skinned knees and top of the pops. Part of the Windrush |
1:41.0 | generation she was born in Trinidad and made the two-week journey to the UK by sea when she was 10 years old, accompanied only by her siblings. |
1:50.0 | Reunited with her parents in London, she found a love of performing as a singer |
1:54.1 | and appeared in many West End musicals before becoming the presenter of Play School in 1976. |
2:00.3 | It was the beginning of a long career presenting and later producing children's television. |
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