Joan Bakewell
The Baroness Bakewell DBE HonFBA FRSA | |
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Bakewell in 2018 | |
| Born | Joan Dawson Rowlands 16 April 1933 Heaton Moor, Greater Manchester, England, UK |
| Education | Newnham College, Cambridge (BA) |
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| Years active | 1965–present |
| Employer | BBC |
| Title | President of Birkbeck, University of London |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouses | Michael Bakewell
(m. 1955; div. 1972)Jack Emery
(m. 1975; div. 2001) |
| Children | 2 |
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. She is president of Birkbeck, University of London.[1][2]
She first became known as one of the presenters of the BBC2 programme Late Night Line-Up (1965–72 and 2008).[3][4] In 1968, she took the role of narrator of the BBC TV production of Cold Comfort Farm and played a TV interviewer in the 1960s movie The Touchables.
References
- ↑ "Time and place: Joan Bakewell". The Times. 1 March 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ↑ Bakewell, Joan (2003). The Centre of the Bed. Hodder & Stoughton. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ↑ "Joan Bakewell tells her side of the story about her affair with Harold Pinter". Radio Times. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
- ↑ O'Connor, Joanne (8 October 2016). "Joan Bakewell: I wasn't insulted by the 'thinking man's crumpet' label". The Guardian. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
Other websites
- Joan Bakewell on IMDb
- "Lost voices", John Mullan, The Guardian, 18 June 1999.
- Listen to an audio slideshow interview with Joan Bakewell talking about her first novel All the Nice Girls on The Interview Online.
- Joan Bakewell at Knight Ayton Management
- Joan Bakewell Official Website Archived 2025-02-22 at the Wayback Machine