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  1. In this week’s Book Club podcast Sam's guest is Joan Bakewell, who talks on the podcast about her new book The Tick Of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On.It describes how she made the decision to sell the house she lived in for half a century, and what it meant to her to face up to old age, and take stock of the past.

  2. Oct 13, 2021 · 13 October 2021, 4:05pm. 32 min listen ... In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is Joan Bakewell, ... Also in Book Reviews. John R. MacArthur

  3. Sep 2, 2021 · A short (I intentionally picked up a whole stack of books less than 200 pages on my last library visit) biographical piece, which sees Joan Bakewell, in her late 80s, downsize from a Victorian terrace to an artists studio in her North London neighbourhood. In many ways it’s the fantasy move into old age that many would like to imagine - Joan ...

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  4. Sep 6, 2021 · British wardrobes contain 3.6 billion unworn garments, admonishes Bakewell. Books have to be discarded – 35,000 tons of unwanted hardbacks and paperbacks are annually sent for pulping, mostly ...

  5. Chapter 1. Plan. I should I be making plans; that's what I'm told. I know it's true. Plenty of people do make plans for their old age, and even for their deaths. "Do not resuscitate" is a very clear plan: an instruction to medical staff about how you want to be treated in a crisis. I know people plan, because I made programmes about them doing so.

  6. Joan Bakewell has always been a sign of the times. Born in 1933, she became prominent as a TV presenter in the 1960s — a woman doing serious journalism when feminism was still a nascent force. She was also a grammar school girl who went up to Cambridge, making her a representative of postwar social mobility.

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  8. Aug 16, 2021 · Joan Bakewell’s Edinburgh Book Festival appearance got much more interesting when the conversation shifted from downsizing to assisted dying, writes David Robinson It was the woman in the front row who made all the difference.

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