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  1. realitystudio.org › bibliographic-bunker › williamWilliam Burroughs and the William Tell Legend - RealityStudio

    Nov 23, 2009 · Joan’s willingness to engage in the William Tell routine might be viewed as a death wish, but it could also be regarded as an act of faith in her husband. Like Tell, Burroughs was an excellent marksman. If certain accounts are to be believed, Joan had played this game before and lived to tell the tale.

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      Riding the Nova Express (2013) by William Weiss. Brother...

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      L’Internationale Hallucinex, a pamphlet containing French...

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      In Cold Blood: William Burroughs’ Curse on Truman Capote by...

  2. www.independent.co.uk › life-style › interview-ohINTERVIEW / Oh, Joan Bakewell's 60 is she? Oh, go on]: Time ...

    Apr 19, 1993 · JOAN BAKEWELL, the thinking man's hot muffin, was 60 on Friday. ... Your support helps us to tell the story. ... Matthew is 29, married with an 18- month son and a baby daughter. When he was 18 ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Joan_BakewellJoan Bakewell - Wikipedia

    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.

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  5. www.openculture.com › 2018 › 07Who Was Joan Vollmer, the Wife William Burroughs Allegedly ...

    Pop­u­lar cul­ture knows William S. Bur­roughs pri­mar­i­ly for three of the things he did in life: using drugs, writ­ing Naked Lunch, and killing his wife.If pop­u­lar cul­ture remem­bers that wife, Joan Vollmer, it most­ly remem­bers her for the man­ner of her death: shot, they say, as a result of Bur­roughs’ drunk­en imi­ta­tion of William ...

  6. www.newstatesman.com › long-reads › kate-mossmanJoan Bakewell: “I can live with death - New Statesman

    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 ...

  7. books.google.com › books › aboutThe Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography - Joan Bakewell ...

    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.

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  9. www.newstatesman.com › culture › observationsJoan Bakewell’s Diary: Talking to centenarians about death

    Nov 17, 2017 · Joan Bakewell’s Diary: Talking to centenarians about death. The broadcaster on George Orwell, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, and making the theatre accessible. By Joan Bakewell. (Photo By Joan Bakewell. Photo: Getty) I have been talking about death a good deal lately. People don’t do it enough. Social taboo and superstition still ...