Good Golly, Bad Golly

The golly, invented in the 19th century, is a potent symbol and has not lost its power to generate controversy in recent years. But there is more than one golly in the public imagination. For some, he is a marker of how far we've come in realising the power of language and stereotypes to cause offence; for others he is the icon of a fondly remembered childhood, carrying as much political freight as a teddy bear. In this programme, journalist and presenter Henry Bonsu finds out how the golly has come to mean such different things to different people.

Henry Bonsu on how the golly has come to mean such different things to different people.