Women Talking About Cars
- Radio chat show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2016 - 2018
- 12 episodes (3 series)
Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews a series of female comics about their lives - through cars. Also features Josette Simon and Morwenna Banks.
- Series 1, Episode 1 repeated Wednesday 8th January at 8am on Radio 4 Extra
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Series 3, Episode 1 - Floella Benjamin
This week Victoria Coren Mitchell talks to the actress, singer, writer, business woman, and politician, Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham, known to millions of Play School viewers as Floella Benjamin.
Further details
Floella talks about her life and career including how her supremely happy childhood in Trinidad turned to unhappiness when her parents left her with a cruel foster family; the joy of being reunited with her mother and father when she came to England; learning to overcome racism with a smile; the freedom that came with passing her driving test and why when she became a peer she chose Baroness of Beckenham as her title.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 28th November 2018
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes