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Floella Benjamin

November 2023

  • Undated handout photo issued by Royal Mail of one of their new set of stamps honouring Dame Shirley Bassey showing her at the BBC Electric Proms, The Roundhouse, 2009. This is the first time Royal Mail has dedicated an entire stamp issue to a solo female music artist.

    There’s no shortage of first-class black Britons to feature on postage stamps

    Letter: David Gold of Royal Mail responds to readers’ comments on ‘special stamp’ choices

April 2023

  • Lady Benjamin

    Ex-TV presenter Floella Benjamin among coronation procession

    Other people selected are human rights barrister and former MI5 boss, Buckingham Palace says

November 2022

  • A waterfall in autumn on the way to Stock Ghyll Falls in Cumbria, England.

    Observer walks
    ‘I always take my socks off’: Floella Benjamin follows the bracing trail to a waterfall in Cumbria

    The TV presenter heads to this spot twice a year, in spring and autumn, and loves it in both seasons

July 2022

  • Floella Benjamin shot for the Observer

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

    From maître d’ Fred Sirieix’s best places to eat in Paris to kangaroos at Glastonbury, the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in June 2022

June 2022

  • Floella Benjamin smiling, wearing a purple top and a large, heavy, multi-layered silver necklace

    Floella Benjamin: ‘I’m Miss Optimist. I don’t let the bad things eat me up’

    From Windrush child to Play School presenter to baroness, Floella Benjamin reflects on her remarkable life

April 2022

  • Paula Kay as Floella Benjamin in Coming to England at Birmingham Rep.

    Coming to England review – Floella Benjamin story overlooks her ascent to Play School

    We see the shock of Windrush-era racism from a child’s perspective, but miss the details of how she rose nontheless to become the face of children’s TV

February 2022

  • Marilyn Malin

    Other lives
    Marilyn Malin obituary

    Other lives: Publisher who championed Michael Morpurgo and Floella Benjamin

November 2021

  • Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night

    Black British culture matters
    ‘I jumped for joy’: Floella Benjamin, Adrian Lester and more on their top screen moments

    From In the Heat of the Night to Loose Women, Black British actors, directors and producers recall their landmark film and TV viewing experiences

April 2021

  • Floella Benjamin attends the press night performance of the English National Opera’s Carmen at the London Coliseum on 29 January 2020 in London

    Floella Benjamin’s childhood memoir to become stage play

    Birmingham Rep says premiere of Coming to England will be highlight of forthcoming season

December 2020

  • Heather Couper photographed in 1984, when she became president of the British Astronomical Association.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2020
    Heather Couper remembered by Floella Benjamin

    The broadcaster and parliamentarian remembers her friend and fellow TV presenter, a distinguished astronomer and science advocate

October 2020

  • Lady Benjamin

    Floella Benjamin: I was told to 'shut up or never work again'

    Peer and former Play School presenter recalls pushback after she pressed for greater diversity in TV

April 2020

  • Joan Bakewell on the Lorraine show

    Over 100 MPs and peers in call to back creative industries in lockdown

    Letter to government warns of impact of coronavirus on workers and their families

December 2019

  • ‘Today’s MPs are all my Play School babies’ … Floella Benjamin.

    Floella Benjamin: 'They sent the police to arrest us'

    She was the face of kids’ TV and became one of the most influential presenters ever. As Baroness Benjamin’s achievements are recognised, she looks back at the racism she overcame

July 2019

  • 22/03/2019 London. Barlby Primary School in Kensington and Chelsea. Music class. Photo SEAN SMITH

    Increasing diversity in the creative industries

  • Windrush Square in Brixton, south London.

    Windrush memorial belongs in Brixton, not Waterloo

November 2018

  • A film clap board

    Tax breaks would focus minds on real diversity in film and TV

    Letters: A group including leading British film and television actors, writers and directors is calling for tax relief to encourage diversity throughout their industry

May 2018

  • Floella Benjamin at the Windrush garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

    The Guardian view on gardening: digging one’s way to humanity

    Editorial: As the Chelsea Flower Show reveals every year, it is very human to seek the solace that comes with growing things

February 2017

  • Floella Benjamin.

    The Q&A
    Floella Benjamin: ‘The Queen gave me a masterclass in people skills’

    The children’s campaigner on coming to Britain in 1960, why Diana, Princess of Wales envied her family, and why she owes a boy called Norman an apology

December 2016

  • Children's books

    Authors and teachers pick a children’s book for Christmas

  • Francesca Sanna The Journey

    Best books of 2016
    The best children’s books of 2016

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