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Baroness Floella Benjamin given Bedtime Story

Baroness Floella Benjamin given Bedtime Story
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Image caption Baroness Floella Benjamin arrived into the UK from Trinidad in 1960

Floella Benjamin’s early life is to be celebrated in a CBeebies Bedtime Story.

The former children’s TV presenter wrote about her arrival from Trinidad in Coming To England, which was published in 1997.

It tells how 10-year-old Floella set sail for a new life in England in 1960, showing “how courage and determination can often overcome adversity”.

The book will be read by historian and presenter David Olusoga to mark the start of Black History Month.

‘Encourage empathy’

Image caption Professor David Olusoga will read the story, Coming To England

Prof Olusoga said: “After reading Coming To England to my daughter earlier this month, I knew this was a very important and special book that needed to be shared widely.

“Not only does the story encourage empathy from children at a very young age, but also a greater understanding of the Windrush generation.

“It explains at an elementary level what it means to be a British person with black Caribbean heritage, a background that deserves to be celebrated and learned about.”

The presenter of A House Through Time added: “Stories are the bridge to opening up minds and personal stories like Baroness Floella Benjamin’s deserve to be heard.”

  • Who are the Windrush generation?

‘Fought every day’

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Media caption“I fought every day”: Floella Benjamin remembers her childhood after she moved to the UK

In 2018, Baroness Benjamin told Newsround that she “fought every day” for the first four years of her life in Britain, and was made to feel like she “wasn’t welcome here”.

She added: “I hated people for treating me as a colour, not as a person.”

After attacking a tormentor with a lollipop, she had a “spiritual moment”, she continued. And from then on, she “stopped fighting with my fist and started fighting with my brain”.

She went on to host the BBC children’s shows Play School and Play Away, and later moved into charity work and politics, working with the Liberal Democrats.

  • Floella Benjamin receives damehood at palace

Baroness Benjamin was introduced to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2010, and made a Dame in the last New Year Honours list.


Bedtime Stories is on each weekday at 18.50pm on the CBeebies channel.

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