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Saturday Live: Baroness Floella Benjamin

02/07/2022

Baroness Floella Benjamin

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Baroness Floella Benjamin

Vashti Bunyan on walking away from fame and the Inheritance Tracks of Karin Slaughter.

Baroness Floella Benjamin, Aled Haydn Jones on surrogacy, Vashti Bunyan on rejecting a pop career, Daniel Biddle on surviving 7/7, and Karin Slaughter chooses her tracks.

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles meet Baroness Floella Benjamin - who became a household name in the mid 70s and 80s as the host of Playschool.  She came to the UK as part of the Windrush generation from Trinidad and as well as TV presenting, she is a successful actor, writer and producer, a working peer and advocate for the welfare and education of Children, she is also a Dame and an OBE.

We also have Aled Haydn Jones - the current head of radio 1 - who has spoken out about his rollercoaster journey to be a Dad, via a surrogate.

Vashti Bunyan was an aspiring pop musician in the late 60s when she walked away from potential fame, and took a horse and cart to Scotland.   Years later she searched online to realise she had a cult following.  She joins us.

Daniel Biddle was the most seriously injured survivor of the 7/7 terror attacks in London in 2015.  He tells us of his journey since, physically back to the site of the attack, but also in developing opportunities for disabled people in the workplace.

For her Inheritance Tracks, crime writer Karin Slaughter chooses You May be Right by Billy Joel and We Got the Beat by the Go-Gos,
and we have your Thank you.

Producer: Corinna Jones

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