UNIVERSTY OF EXETER APPOINTS NEW CHANCELLOR: Floella Benjamin OBE, Hon D.Litt (Exeter) is to be the University of Exeter’s new Chancellor
Said Floella: “It’s a great honour to be appointed Chancellor of the University of Exeter. I have always tried throughout my career to make a difference to the lives of young people.... more
UNIVERSTY OF EXETER APPOINTS NEW CHANCELLOR:
Floella, 56, is a broadcaster, actress, writer, producer, and an active worker for the welfare, care and education of children throughout the world ... more
Born on the Same Day: The Boss and the Caribbean kiddie-show Queen
On September 23, 1949, Bruce Springsteen was Born in the USA - and Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad... more
Dawson wins recognition for work with NSPCC
27 Sep 2005  
Wasps and England scrum half Matt Dawson is to be honoured for his outstanding contribution to the NSPCC FULL STOP campaign to end cruelty to children in a ceremony at the House of Commons on Wednesday 2 November 2005... more
My Childhood
Floella's parents left Trinidad when she was eight for a new life in London. Floella, her sister and two briothers were left with godparents, to be sent for later... more
The Playschool Legacy: Coming to England
When Floella Benjamin first wrote Coming to England, a book about her journey as a 10-year-old from Trinidad to London in the 1960s... more
Books
Coming to England: by Floella Benjamin, with illustrations by Michael Frith.
CHILDREN"S television presenter Floella Benjamin delighted youngsters when she appearded at Blackwell's Children's Bookshop at Oxford last week... more
Growning Up in a Foreign Country
Children reading Michael Foreman's After the War Was Over should be forgiven for thinking that the past is very definitely a foreign country... more