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  1. 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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  2. Sep 6, 2021 · Joan’s immediate neighbours were Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and George Melly. Wit, jazz, poems, a big gas bill. There were drinks parties with lots of smoking ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. Aug 23, 2021 · As a trailblazi­ng broadcaste­r, she spent years championin­g the rights of the elderly, but never counted herself among them. Now, in a deeply poignant new memoir, JOAN BAKEWELL reveals the . . . 2021-08-23 - By Joan Bakewell The year is 2018. Now in my 86th year, I am moving into deep old age, and edging towards the end of my life.

  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. An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously -- Sarah Ditum ― The Times At 88 years old, broadcaster and Labour peer Joan Bakewell shows little sign of slowing down her work rate, yet she has had to confront her age in another way - downsizing ― Radio Times The broadcaster's account of downsizing and ditching a lifetime of objects is ...

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