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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 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
Jan 21, 2023 · Baroness Joan Bakewell has said being diagnosed with the disease has made her “more contemplative” as she reflects on how she wants to be remembered. The 89-year-old was diagnosed with colon ...
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.
Oct 14, 2024 · The Joan Bakewell Night on BBC4 this week, featuring my interviews with Nelson Mandela and Marcel Duchamp, has prompted me to look back at my own life. Nonetheless, death is the great inevitable ...
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 ...
- Kate Mossman
Joan Bakewell needs very little introduction. A regular on British television and radio for decades, she is a fierce defender of the arts, with an incisive mind and consummate expertise, and a clear-cut role model. At the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards, held on 12 May 2019, she was presented with BAFTA’s highest accolade, the Fellowship. Words by Matthew Bell
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Jan 9, 2019 · WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT DEATH: My Dying Wishes. TX: 09.01.19 2000-2045. PRESENTER: JOAN BAKEWELL. PRODUCER: BETH EASTWOOD. Bakewell. Hello and welcome back. Previous series got you thinking about ...
