Women Talking About Cars

Victoria Coren Mitchell returns with a new series of the interview programme that uses a famous woman's car as a vehicle to talk about her life. This week Victoria talks to the actress, singer, writer, business woman, and politician, Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham, known to millions of Play School viewers as Floella Benjamin.

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.

Car descriptions read by Sarah Hadland.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.

• Producer: Gareth Edwards

Publicity contact: Radio 4 Publicity