Sir Lenny Henry

A lot of black journalists have criticised me for talking about it, but it's my life and it happened to me.

So I feel like I can talk about the time when she hit me in the face with a frying pan and the frying pan retained the face of my face.

LAUGHTER

It was like, oh, Winifred, I didn't know you liked modern art.

This is called Len in Pan.

But she did hit you, and it did hurt, and there were times when I'd be hiding under a table and thinking, I wonder if she knows when to finish this.

It was like she really did wallop you.

I don't remember what time.

She was beating me, and I was bleeding from my... She hit me with the other side of her belt, and I was bleeding from my eyebrow.

And Uncle Clifton came round and said... And I was...

Is it good?

You won't do it next time, whatever it was.

That's how, you know, it was very strict in our house.

What have you got from her that's in you today?

What's she given you, Winnie?

I got her work ethic.

She was a woman who had three jobs.

She worked in the factory.

She made dresses.

She cooked.