Floella Benjamin: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Floella Benjamin said elsewhere, not written here

A teacher. Teachers can change lives.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Sara Pascoe English comedian, presenter, writer

To be looked at.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗

Bozoma Saint John Marketing executive; former chief marketing officer of Netflix

An obstetrician.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2017 source ↗

Lucy Worsley English historian

A spy, a witch and a nun.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian

What I am now, but with a better singing voice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

A boy called Norman. When I came to England, I didn’t know what kiss-chase was, and Norman kissed me on the lips, so I gave him a black eye.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2017 source ↗

Smile by Nat King Cole.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2017 source ↗

Happiness is like an elusive butterfly: whenever it comes my way, I grab it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2017 source ↗

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