28/11/2010
Kate's guest is the campaigner for children, charity worker and Liberal Democrat peer Floella Benjamin. Text 85058 [charged at your standard message rate].
She's gone from taking us through the round window to becoming Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham.
Playschool favourite turned children's campaigner, Chancellor of Exeter University Floella Benjamin is Kate's 10 o'clock interview. She recounts the racism she faced in 1970s London, childrens TV, why she won't be the Lib Dem candidate for London Mayor despite backing the Lib Dems at the last election, and why giving kids a hug will cut the teenage pregnancy rates.
In the 5 live forum this week, should we have the right to choose when we die? And before the final of Miss Great Britain - are we inevitably still judged on our appearance? Associate editor of The News of the World, David Wooding; Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude Magazine, and libertarian Suzy Dean discuss.
And in the first half hour, the International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell on the latest aid British help to contain the cholera outbreak in Haiti, and analysis of the tensions between North and South Korea with James Hoare, who set up the British Embassy in Pyongyang.
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