Baroness Floella Benjamin: ‘Being a Playschool presenter was an opportunity to change the world’

Actor and presenter Floella Benjamin talks to Justin Johnson about using her time as a presenter on the childrens’ TV show Play School in the 1970s to challenge the all-white culture of Childrens’ BBC. Benjamin, who was at the BFI Southbank presenting a screening of West Side Story, was one of the few black presenters on television at the time. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI. Watch more on the BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ Follow us on Twitter:   / bfi   Like us on Facebook:   / britishfilminstitute   Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+britishfilmi...