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  1. 2. Dame Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933), 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 received a Humanist of the Year award for services to humanism.

  2. Apr 19, 1993 · JOAN BAKEWELL, the thinking man's hot muffin, was 60 on Friday. ... Matthew is 29, married with an 18- month son and a baby daughter. When he was 18, after doing poorly in his A-levels, Matthew ...

  3. Mar 28, 2023 · Old times: Joan Bakewell interviews Harold Pinter on Late Night Line-Up in 1969. Courtesy of the BBC. Bakewell’s cult TV show Late Night Line-Up put her in the unique position of being a female host in the Sixties, four nights a week, alongside Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean and Nicholas Tresilian. Launched in 1964, it was a somewhat anarchic ...

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  4. Nov 21, 2019 · Joan Bakewell was born in Stockport in 1933, the daughter of an engineer, granddaughter of working-class artisans. She was the first in her family to go to university and only the second woman from her grammar school to attend Cambridge, where her circle included Frederick Raphael, Peter Hall, Michael Frayn, Mark Boxer and Jonathan Miller.

    • Joan Bakewell
    • Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
    • 1529362180, 9781529362183
    • The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography
  5. Chair of the theatre company, Shared Experience. Joan was made a CBE is 1999 and Dame in 2008. In January 2011 she took her seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport. In April 2013, she became President of Birkbeck College. Joan Bakewell is an author, journalist and broadcaster.

  6. Aug 22, 2021 · Joan Bakewell recounts moving out of her house in North London after almost 60 years. ... our three-year-old daughter and an Austrian au pair in tow. ... Robert Downey Jr. calls out Elon Musk for ...

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  8. Nov 19, 2021 · Broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell. THOSE who have lived as long as I have – some nine decades – have seen momentous changes, a complete revolution in the lives, status and opportunities for women. It has been without doubt the greatest social shift in my lifetime.

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