The television industry is “in turmoil” and needs “creative survival solutions” from the UK government, the children’s television presenter Floella Benjamin has said, as she accepted her Bafta fellowship on Sunday.
Lady Benjamin, best known as presenter of children’s programmes such as Play School, was praised in a video recording by Prince William at the Bafta Television Awards for being “an unwavering champion of inclusion” and for her power to “remind us of the power of empathy”.
