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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. 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.

  4. Feb 1, 2023 · I read a bit about her: Baroness Joan Bakewell DBE began her career in the 1960s as a journalist and documentary maker, later becoming a Labour Party peer. She made documentaries which included subjects like race relations, female genital mutilation and the death penalty, she wrote on issues like society and politics.

  5. Joan Bakewell became nationally known as one of the strongest women’s voices of her generation at the BBC, from the 1960s to the present. She has presented arts coverage on Newsnight, was the chief presenter of the documentary series Heart of the Matter , has presented series on pornography and civil rights, and has long been regarded as a liberal intellectual contributor to national ...

  6. Baroness Joan Bakewell DBE was made a patron of Humanists UK for her exploration of the human condition through the arts and her humanist contributions to ethical questions in public life. Journalist, television presenter, and Labour Party peer, Joan Bakewell was born in Stockport in 1933. She attended Newnham College at the University of ...

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  8. Richard Curtis and Dame Joan Bakewell both came up with the same idea for a BBC TV drama Joan Bakewell has had a long and distinguished broadcasting career. But, she jokes, her CV would be even ...