One of the most famous presenters of Play School (1964) she has recently devoted
her life to charity work. As well as sitting on the Board of Governors
of Britain's National Film & Television School, she was awarded the OBE
by the Queen for services to broadcasting and charity in
2001.
As of 28th May 2010, she is formally known as Baroness Benjamin of
Beckenham, in the county of Kent, upon her elevation to the peerage of
the United Kingdom in the Dissolution Honours List published that day
(the list names those individuals receiving Honours from the Monarch at
a time following the dissolution of the UK Parliament), after
nomination by the Liberal Democrat party. On 28th June 2010 Lady
Benjamin took her seat as a Life Peer in the House of Lords, the upper
house of the UK Parliament, where she has said she "...will be devoting
much energy to the well being of children and young people".
