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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.
Mar 28, 2023 · When she discovered she had colon cancer at the start of this year, she called her daughter and told her where the will was. “I was encompassing, in that, the fact that I might die. And then I suddenly thought: ‘Well, I can live with that idea – how odd.’”
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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...
My mother, the eldest daughter among eight children, was also keen to better her lot. She was bright enough to win a City of Manchester scholarship to Ardwick Central School but left after a year, aged thirteen, either because - family stories vary - the family couldn't afford the uniform and she minded the stigma, or because my perpetually ...
Apr 19, 1993 · Harriet is 32, a television researcher, married and divorced, now with a new partner, but no children. Matthew is 29, married with an 18- month son and a baby daughter.
Oct 20, 2023 · Joan Bakewell opens her front door, leads me into her elegant, artfilled, double-height-ceilinged central London home, apologises for the mess, of which there is none, and starts talking about Rory Stewart, whose book is on the sofa.
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Dame Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, FRSA (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.
