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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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Apr 19, 1993 · A new one called Memento started on Thursday. 'Yes, but it's the fact of being 60 that's brought you here,' she sighed. 'I remember at 40, admitting I was 40, sympathising with the women's ...
May 30, 2018 · Joan Bakewell is many things: a novelist; a commentator; a cultural critic. But she’s something else, too: she is someone who lived through, observed and participated in the tumult of the 1960s.
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.
Nov 21, 2019 · This is no ordinary celebrity autobiography but a memoir that is beautifully written, frank and absorbing, which draws a thought-provoking portrait of Britain in the last 70 years. Dame Joan...
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Jan 11, 2023 · Dame Joan Bakewell was diagnosed with colon cancer during a routine examination after her sister died from the same disease and has been a patron of Breast Cancer Care since.
