Joan Bakewell

Profile: Full name: Joan Dawson Bakewell (Baroness Bakewell) Area of interest: Society, Culture, Politics, Women's issues Journals/Organisation: The Independent | The Daily Telegraph Email: Personal website: Websites: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-bakewell | http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/joanbakewell Blog: Representation: Knight Ayton Management | Clive Conway Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/jdbakewell

Biography: About: Education: Stockport Convent High School For Girls; Newnham College, Cambridge Career: Began a broadcasting career in the 1950’s; Joined the BBC radio as studio manager; Made her first appearance on BBC television as a guest on Table Talk, 1962; Co-presented BBC 2’s pioneering Late Night Line Up programme, 1964/1972; Moved to Granada television in the 1970’s, pioneering the Reports Action interactive audience programme; Worked again for the BBC in the 1980’s, presenting the PM programme on Radio 4, and as arts correspondent on BBC Television, 1981/1987; In the late 1980’s was a reporter and presenter on BBC 1’s The Heart of the Matter; Since 2000 has presented her own series, including My Generation, Taboo and Flowering in Autumn (BBC 4, 2005) and continued a radio career, currently presenting Radio 3’s Belief programme The Museum Broadcast of Communications: profile Has been a columnist for the Manchester Evening News, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, and most recently The Independent (ending June 2008) Current position/role: freelance columnist / guest contributor various journals also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: writer and broadcaster Other activities: Member of Fawcett Society; patron of Breast Cancer Care; former Chairman of the British Film Institute, 2000/2002 Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: There ain't nothing like being a dame... - Joan Bakewell's agony at keeping her honour a secret for four weeks - Daily Mail, 19th June 2008 The seven ages of love: 70s - Joan Bakewell, 75, reflects on love in later years - The Independent, 26th September 2008 Broadcast media: The Late Show Line Up: BBC UK Interview with Marcel Duchamp June 5, 1968 interview conducted by Joan Bakewell (VIDEO) Joan Bakewell joins Jenni Murray to talk about her memoirs, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, 13th October 2003 (audio) IMDb Video: Controversy/Criticism: Cristina Odone: Jade Goody versus Joan Bakewell? No contest The Observer, 4th March 2007 Awards/Honours: Awarded the CBE; won BAFTA’s Richard Dimbleby Award for television journalism, 1994; Honorary Doctorate from University of Chester, 2007, for "contribution to debate across the arts and spirituality across the media of radio and television.”; Raised to the peerage as [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/joan-bakewell/90430 Baroness Bakewell of Stockport in the County of Greater Manchester 2011 Scoops: Other: Marriages to TV producer Michael Bakewell and director Jack Emery

Books & Debate: The new priesthood: British television today (1970) OCLC 154541 The centre of the bed (2003) OCLC 59290428 - (meet the author VIDEO) Belief (2006) OCLC 64313392 The view from here: life at seventy (2006) OCLC 70988910 Latest work: All the Nice Girls OCLC 276648794, 2009 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

Journals: Column name: Joan Bakewell Remit/Info: Society, culture, politics Section: Role: columnist Pen-name: Email: Website: Commissioning editor: Day published: varies Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Selected articles, all journals Our museums are thriving, but for how long? - A network of worthy institutions and people sustains our exciting arts scene - but every one is being squeezed by austerity - 16th May 2012 We’re back in the days of make-do-and-mend - We’re all learning the virtues of post-war thriftiness - 14th April 2012 Wanted: tent poems that are perfectly pitched - A wonderful poetry scheme adds to the ongoing makeover of our seaside resorts - 27th March 2012 As Dame Edna might say: live life to the full, possums - I first met Edna when Barry Humphries was developing her character in the Sixties - 20th March 2012 After 40 years, why should I be forced to sell my property? - We should not be made to move house at the whim of government policy - 6th March 2012 Cheap day return to Chichester - three fares - When it comes to train tickets, it’s always pique time - 1st February 2012 My accent is too posh for the BBC - As this latest fuss proves, the way we talk is still very important to a lot of people - 20th January 2012 The Brits can give Hollywood a run for its bucks - We have the directors and creative talent but not the big budgets that US film-makers enjoy - 13th January 2012 Sex in society: too much raunch, too young - The sexual freedoms gained in the Sixties have nothing in common with today's dismaying bombardment of explicit images at children - 7th January 2012 Under cover in Prague for a date with the heroic Vaclav Havel - The BBC had to resort to subterfuge to interview the then Czechoslovak dissident in 1967 for Late Night Line Up - 23rd December 2011 Don’t waste the treasure inside your turkey - Giblets make superb soup. Why on earth throw them away - 13th December 2011 Walking in London is so much fun - Walking shouldn't be just about getting from A to B - 30th November 2011 Baroness Trumpington sticks two merry fingers up at old age - Tweeting has made a sudden celebrity of the baroness after her performance in the House of Lords - 18th November 2011 Joan Bakewell on the St Paul's protest - As the Occupy London protest at St Paul's Cathedral enters its fourth week, the Anglican Church has finally woken up to the opportunities it presents - 6th November 2011 Next we'll be told to hurry up and die - When we move out of a house we are giving up more than a space. We are giving up our identity - 20th October 2011 The BBC should save local radio’s bright colours and milky coffee - Regional stations should be saved from the corporation's Delivering Quality First cuts - 6th October 2011 Women are doing it for themselves - Since Miriam O’Reilly won her case, women in working in television have stopped moaning about their plight and begun doing something about it - 22nd September 2011 Why can we never abide gipsies and those with no fixed abode? - The fit of rage at the travellers resisting eviction from Dale Farm in Essex is puzzling - 2nd September 2011 I'm not going to stay the long course for the Olympics - Despairing of the whipped-up hysteria about the Games, I turn for solace to the glory that is the BBC Proms - 27th July 2011 Who cares for the elderly? - This week's report on the treatment of the elderly is a timely reminder that we must radically rethink the way we view the older generation - 16th February 2010 Mark Damazer transformed the landscape for ideas - He sees no reason why culture should not be shared by all - 15th April 2010

Articles: 2009 In this noisy, twittering world, loneliness is never talked about - 31st December Enough patronising of older people! We’re not witless - Believe it or not, in Flintshire you get slipper safety training - 12th December Cut fuel payments but don’t touch our free travel! - Beware older people when government looks for savings - 26th September Time the law caught up with over-65s - As two legal cases challenge a compulsory retirement age, we need a revolution in attitudes - 16th July Why Dr Death should have been given a welcome in Britain - Assisted suicide is illegal in this country, but is fast becoming one of those hot topics that won’t go away - 15th May Three cheers for a Bill of rights for the old, gay, disabled, female and taken-for-granted - We have seen times and the law change attitudes. The new Equality Bill is the next step - 1st May Be not afraid - especially of fear itself - No one was measuring anxiety at Dunkirk or during the Cuban Missile Crisis - 17th April Burka, turban and cross: in multifaith Britain, who dares to set the dress rules? - Where will it end? There is even firefighting dress for pregnant staff - 3rd April Show me the money: why secrecy about cash corrupts public life - Secrecy is rarely done for privacy but to mask the maximising of our earnings by sly means - 27th March Immigration points system counts so heavily against our arts scene - Visa rules need to be more flexible in their requirements - 6th March 2009 Lack of overnight care adds to fears of the elderly - The loss of 24-hour wardens in sheltered housing encapsulates of the worries older people have about their later years - 28th February 2009 Resist the cultural vandalism - don't let them close our precious libraries - Mega-libraries appeal to eager councils, but such ego trips misunderstand the value of books - 20th February 2009 Oh, please, let's save our righteous indignation for some real outrage - Carol Thatcher loses her job, but gaffs by the Royals are just laughed off - 6th February 2009 The BBC's record is good, but it's wrong not to broadcast the DEC appeal - 26th January 2009 What's wrong with the House of Commons? - I'd rather hang out with the funky lords than the squares in the Commons - 23rd January 2009 Women will win equality only when pay is dragged out of the closet - What are people afraid of? What is wrong with being paid the same for the same work? - 9th January 2009

Articles: 2008 Read your children Bible stories. Here's why... - It's not often I agree with the Pope, but I'm with him wholeheartedly on this one - 19th December 2008 Stop fiddling and start burning with bright ideas - 5th December 2008 My Christmas message for Royal Mail: you can keep the card - Its generosity extends to waiving the 50p charge to collect your mail if no-one was home when the postman called - 21st November 2008 Enough excuses. The BBC must confront its moral crisis - Swearing, protests and controversy are nothing new. But shared values have been lost, and with them good judgment - The Guardian, 20th November 2008 Out of shadows, a glimpse of the hell in our midst - This week we have been given a glimpse of a world beyond our knowing: a world of sustained and devious cruelty to a tiny child - 15th Novemeber 2008 Ageism, pensions and the end of high heels - it's time I spoke up - The Guardian - 10th November 2008 Paying for sex - what's so wrong with that? - 59 per cent of people agree that prostitution is a reasonable choice of work - 7th November 2008 No-God squad climb aboard the atheist bus - The bus-funders are young people who feel that no one is listening to them - 24th October 2008 Women who deserve a stamp of approval - After the recent list of women worthy of stamps of achievement, our writer makes her own list - 16th October 2008 Why smacking is evidence of failure - 10th October 2008 A little thoughtfulness can make all the difference - This could be the future for all of us. By the time we reach our nineties most of our contemporaries will be dead and our children nearing retirement age. Growing old in our own homes and needing round-the-clock attention will be too costly: care homes await us all - 9th October 2008 The church where anything goes - except a wedding - What to make of this crackpot regulation? It's part of the tension between secular and religious interests - 26th September 2008 How bad is it for women newsreaders? - Selina Scott is suing Channel Five, claiming she was sidelined for being too old. And she is not the first woman to feel she has been axed in her prime. Joan Bakewell explains why we need mature women on our screens - The Guardian, 3rd September 2008 Prison - a cruel and unusual punishment for a woman - Jailing mothers for trivial offences is harsh on them and their children. But the Government has lost its nerve on reform - 1st July 2008

The Independent: Column name: Joan Bakewell Remit/Info: Society, culture, politics Section: Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: joan.bakewell@virgin.net Website: Independent.co / Joan Bakewell Commissioning editor: Day published: Friday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: 2008 no more regular articles If I feel like having a cigarette, why shouldn't I? - 6th June 2008 I granted Mary Whitehouse the freedom to protest - 30th May 2008 Science or literature? Surely what we need is both - 23rd May 2008 No wonder the toffs are back with a vengeance - 16th May 2008 Giant white horses and the dangers of 'plop' art - 9th May 2008 For women around the world, life is getting worse - 2nd May 2008 The silent victims of the technology revolution - 25th April 2008 Please don't spoil my relationship with vitamins - 18th April 2008 Abu Qatada's leave to stay is a human right too far - 11th April 2008 Why can't the Speaker's wife use a bus pass? - 4th April 2008 Macmillan could afford to be optimistic in his day - 28th March 2008 Churches are the solution to the post office crisis - 21st March 2008 Alzheimer's research can no longer be sidelined - 14th March 2008 Let's see these soldiers' faces on our stamps - 7th March 2008 The art in our collections is for display, not for sale - 29th February 2008 A university drop-out is a sign of a wider failure - 22nd February 2008 It's a child's right to experience the joy of creativity - 15th February 2008 Meditation is more than flower-power indulgence - 8th February 2008 This could stir up some painful memories - 1st February 2008 Where next when we are already sated with luxury? - 25th January 2008 There's nothing charitable about buying privilege - 18th January 2008 I was faced with a life and death decision - 4th January 2008

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