Hester Lacey

What is your earliest memory?Tony Blackburn playing Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” on BBC Radio One, the morning of my first day at Wilberforce Primary School on Beethoven Street in Westminster. Who was or still is your mentor? My parents, who came to England in search of a better life. My father is a carpenter and contributed to a lot of north-west London’s buildings; my mother is a housing manager. How fit are you?Zero fitness. It’s really bad. There was a time when I was going to…