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  1. 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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  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 .

  3. Apr 17, 2009 · Dame Joan Bakewell, 75, made her mark in television in the 1960s as a presenter of BBC2’s Late Night Line Up. In the 1990s, Joan was the host of Heart of the Matter for BBC1, which she fronted...

  4. Oct 20, 2023 · Bakewell is 90, which tells in some ways (“No, it was not that long ago – it must have been in the 80s,” she says at one point) and not in others. She is chic as hell, in a cornflower blue jumper and red patent Mary Janes, and – sorry, this is coarse, from a feminist newspaper – could easily be 70.

  5. Apr 19, 1993 · JOAN BAKEWELL, the thinking man's hot muffin, was 60 on Friday. Can you believe it? She was just back from a week's holiday in Spain with her husband, Jack, sitting in her ever-so-elegant house...

  6. Nov 17, 2017 · The scheme provides chances for deprived families with two children between the ages of three and 17 to get special deals to go to West End Shows. Over five weeks this summer, 550 such families have seen shows as varied as Billy Liar and Les Misérables.

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  8. 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...

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