DESERT ISLAND DISCS' LATEST GUEST BARONESS FLOELLA BENJAMIN, DBE

Welcome to new members of our Society of Women Writers & Journalists. Lots to learn about our organisation which started in 1894. (more history in our website www.swwj.co.uk).

You can learn even more by listening to BBC Radio 4's  Desert Island Discs tomorrow Friday 16 October at 9am which features our President, Baroness Benjamin (Floella).

It's good to hear more about our President's life and times, certainly from the time our children loved her appearances on Play School in the 1970s, and in this current BBC programme, you will hear much more of her achievements, over the last fifty years.  

is a Trinidadian-British broadcaster, writer and politician. She became a familiar face to millions of viewers through her work on children's television, most notably on Play School, which she first presented in 1976.