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  1. Joan Bakewell. (b.1933) Joan was born in Stockport, and grew up in Hazel Grove, Cheshire. Shewas educated at Norbury Primary School, Stockport High School for Girls and Newnham College Cambridge,where she graduated with aPart I degree in Economics and Part II in History. She has lived inLondon since 1954. She is divorced, with two children and ...

  2. Bakewell starred in 4 series of Granada’s pioneering Reports Action, a series that first encouraged the public to contribute goods and services to good causes. Subsequently, she returned to the BBC, and co-presented a short-lived late-night television arts programme, briefly worked on the BBC Radio 4 PM programme, and was Newsnight ' s arts correspondent (1986–88).

  3. These conversations, selected from Joan Bakewell’s Radio 3 series of the same name, constitute a broad and surprising insight into what thinking people think. The View from Here Built loosely on her much loved Guardian column ‘Just 70’ ‘ The View from Here ‘ is Bakewell’s discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond.

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  5. Joan Bakewell’s most popular book is Icons of England. Joan Bakewell has 26 books on Goodreads with 4150 ratings. Joan Bakewell’s most popular book is Icons of ...

  6. Born. April 16, 1933. Genre. Biography, Nonfiction, Fiction. edit data. Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, FRSA, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has been awarded Humanist of the ...

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  8. Joan Bakewell is an author, journalist and broadcaster. She is President of Birkbeck College, London, and a member of the House of Lords. She has served on the board of the National Theatre and as Chair of the British Film Institute and of the National Campaign for the Arts.