Floella Benjamin
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matt hosted this year's Parliamentary Book Awards, where he sat down with winner and children's TV legend Floella Benjamin.
Columnists Manveen Rana and Katy Balls discuss the surprising number of people who want to be Tory MPs, the public's continued support for Ukraine, and Therese Coffey's suggestion that we eat more turnips.
Plus: Matt heads to Turnips restaurant in London's Borough Market to find out more about the environment secretary's favourite seasonal vegetable.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast. I'm Matt Charlie, bringing you the best of my time |
| 0:04.7 | radio show. Monday to Friday, 10 to 1, you can listen on your DAB radio, on your smart |
| 0:09.6 | speaker, or download the Times Radio app. And it was quite silly to date, throughout |
| 0:14.6 | the show to date, we were talking turnips because of Trees' coffee saying this in the |
| 0:18.8 | House of Commons. |
| 0:19.8 | But it's important to make sure that we cherish the specialisms that we have in this country. |
| 0:26.5 | A lot of people would be eating turnips right now. |
| 0:29.2 | So yeah, lots of turnip chat. And in fact, a bit later on, you'll be able to hear what |
| 0:32.5 | happened when I went to turnips, the fruit and vegetable and restaurant in Bowen Market, |
| 0:39.1 | where they cook lots of turnips. And we'll speak to the chef Thomas there. So that's |
| 0:42.4 | coming up in a bit later on. We've also got our big thing today. This week, I hosted |
| 0:47.1 | the Parliamentary Book Awards in Parliament. And one of the winners was Baroness Luella |
| 0:52.6 | Benjamin. So I caught up with her, had a chat with her about her book. What are you |
| 0:57.1 | doing here? Which apparently people ask her an awful lot. We'll also talk about her |
| 1:01.1 | relationship with the Queen and a little bit of play school as well. So that's coming |
| 1:05.2 | up a bit later on on the podcast. But first, as ever, let's kick off with the Colourmiss |
| 1:08.9 | panel. |
| 1:09.9 | The Colourmiss on Times Radio. |
| 1:13.3 | Yes, it's that time where we speak to her. I spoke to Colourmiss on a Friday morning |
| 1:19.3 | and we are joined by Mamveen Rana, a host of the Times. It's a story of our Times podcast. |
| 1:24.5 | Morning, Mamveen. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello. Nice to have you with us. And Katie Balls, a political spectator who has |
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