Writer's Profile : Tony Benn could have been Lord Stansgate if he wanted to, but instead he disclaimed the peerage in 1963 on the day the Peerage Act 1963 passed into law and made it possible for him to do so. I was a student when he was a minister in the British cabinet.
In this book review show, Ken Livingstone and his guests, Nadifa Mohamed and Robin Yassin-Kassab, have a detailed discussion about Tony Benn's new book called 'Letters to My Grandchildren'.
In his new book, Tony Benn writes letters to his 10 grandchildren and their generation where he shares his experience of life with them in an attempt to help them avoid the mistakes their parents and grandparents made.
