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Joan Bakewell

November 2023

  • A cut-away doll’s house with writers Patrice Lawrence, Joan Bakewell, AL Kennedy, Hephzibah Anderson and VG Lee each in one of the pink rooms

    Sex toys, selfishness and why we won’t settle: life as a single woman, across the generations

    Uncoupled doesn’t have to mean incomplete. Eight writers - from their 20s to 90s - celebrate single life as a destination of its own

October 2023

  • Joan Bakewell

    Joan Bakewell on love, fun and ambition at 90: ‘I’ve been pleased not to be married these last 20 years’

    Still nowhere near ready to retire, the arts presenter talks about her six decades in TV, her affair with Harold Pinter and why David Attenborough was a terrific boss

September 2023

  • Joan Bakewell in 2020 portrait

    Like Joan Bakewell, I despair about where my inheritance tax will go

    Letters: Margaret Owen doesn’t want to help pay for unethical, even unlawful, policies, while Lorrie Marchington recommends giving to charities in your will

August 2023

  • TV and radio drama producer Michael Bakewell

    Michael Bakewell obituary

    Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard

March 2023

  • -<br>Joan Bakewell shot for OM

    This much I know
    Joan Bakewell: ‘I did enjoy the 1960s very much’

    The broadcaster, 89, on wishing to write one perfect poem, having a high old time, failing to make the world a better place and missing wearing high heels

July 2022

  • OFM July Joan Bakewell illustration

    Lunch with...
    Joan Bakewell: ‘Life hasn’t got duller as I’ve got older. Less thrilling, perhaps’

  • An older couple sit on a bench at Cromer, North Norfolk, in front of the sea.

    ‘I’m one of the lucky ones, I’m financially OK’: welcome to ageing Britain, where pensioners outnumber children

October 2021

  • Ladder up stack of books<br>Tall white ladder leaning on 10 vintage books on wooden table, blue background

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcast

  • Ladder up stack of booksTall white ladder leaning on 10 vintage books on wooden table, blue background

    The long read
    Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals

September 2021

  • Joan Bakewell at Cambridge in 1953.

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: my teacher said my work was trite rubbish – and totally destroyed me

  • -<br>Joan Bakewell shot in her garden for OM

    The Tick of Two Clocks by Joan Bakewell review – home and away

March 2021

  • Michael Rosen on his youtube channel

    Michael Rosen backs calls for Covid UK public inquiry

    Children’s writer who nearly died from virus joins Joan Bakewell and other public figures in demanding investigation

January 2021

  • -<br>Joan Bakewell shot in her garden for OM

    Joan Bakewell: ‘The world is full of such interesting people’

    Joan Bakewell had been a broadcasting pioneer for more than half a century. And she’s still as forthright as ever. Here, she talks to Sophie Heawood about the empowerment of women, her newly streamlined life and why Boris has got it all wrong about the virus
  • Sitting pretty ... Rosario Dawson as Allegra Dill.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Rosario Dawson swaps her lightsabers for detective drama

    Dawson stars as Allegra Dill in Briarpatch. Plus: Julia Bradbury walks Cornwall and Devon. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Joan Bakewell

    Joan Bakewell threatens legal action over delays to second Covid vaccine dose

    Labour peer to challenge government decision to stretch timeline from three to 12 weeks

September 2020

  • Joan Bakewell

    I was assaulted by government minister, says Joan Bakewell

  • Harold Pinter and Lady Antonia Fraser in London, 1981.

    Why Harold Pinter’s widow feels his screenplays deserve greater recognition

April 2020

  • Joan Bakewell on the Lorraine show

    Over 100 MPs and peers in call to back creative industries in lockdown

    Letter to government warns of impact of coronavirus on workers and their families

June 2019

  • Birkbeck, University of London.

    Time to stop neglecting education for adults

    Letters: Joan Bakewell, Nigel Todd, Dr Jude Anderson, and Dr Bill Jones respond to the Augar review of post-18 education

May 2019

  • Joan Bakewell: ‘Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t get mentioned in the Lords. Sometimes people raise an eyebrow.’

    Joan Bakewell: ‘You don’t get the Albert Finneys and the Tom Contis today. It’s all these old Etonians’

    After 50 years of making and shaping TV, the presenter is still giving a keen, active attention to the things that matter, from gender equality and social mobility to fighting the government in the Lords
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