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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. 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 ...

  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.

    • Joan Bakewell
    • Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
    • 1529362180, 9781529362183
    • The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography
  4. Mar 28, 2023 · Joan Bakewell, 90 in April, lives in a complex of artists’ studios with the feel of a Victorian almshouse: cottages with small gardens and walls over which, during the early days of lockdown, people would drop bags of food for the older residents suddenly judged too much at risk to go out alone. She had just moved here in March 2020 – her ...

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  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

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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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