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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 woman from her grammar school to attend Cambridge, where her circle included Frederick Raphael, Peter Hall, Michael Frayn, Mark Boxer and Jonathan Miller. Her long and illustrious career in broadcasting has included being the only woman presenter on BBC TV's Late Night Line Up, being Arts Correspondent for Newsnight, Chair of the BFI, and presenting series such as Heart of the Matter and My Generation.
Following the publication of her autobiography THE CENTRE OF THE BED in 2003, she has published STOP THE CLOCKS and THE VIEW FROM HERE as well as the novels ALL THE NICE GIRLS and SHE'S LEAVING HOME. She was awarded a life peerage in 2010 and is President of Birkbeck, University of London.
Mesmerising
Caroline Gascoigne, Books of the Year, Sunday Time
A beautifully written, fascinating glimpse into the childhood and personal life of the woman who was one of the pioneers for equality for women in the BBC.
Lesley Pearse, Daily Mail
She has the rare ability to observe her life from a semi-detached position and to lace her own story into the social history of our times
Michael Cockerell, Daily Mail
Few can match Bakewell for the qualities that abound in her book: class and composure and a deeply unfashionable concern for more than her own career.
Lesley White, Sunday Times
Wise and wry
The Times
Bakewell's level-headed discussion of her ambivalent response to the tag (the 'thinking man's crumpet') makes fascinating reading...as does her calm but moving account of her lengthy affair with Harold Pinter.
The Sunday Times
Like the devil in the Rolling Stones' song, Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking chunks out of the Berlin Wall when it fell...draped in the kaftan of Sixties sophistication...her evocations of grief [are] powerful and honest.
Independent on Sunday
vividly believable and tinged with sadness...a tender, unshowy memoir
Casilda Grigg, The Telegraph
Joan Bakewell's superb autobiography is honest and intriguing, but it is also beautifully-written...Contemplating her gender, Cambridge, politics, ideas, she appears charming without being self-righteous. Well conveyed is the tension she felt between seizing opportunities finally available to women like herself and the enduring expectations of motherhood and the perfect family.
The Observer
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
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 woman from her grammar school to attend Cambridge, where her circle included Frederick Raphael, Peter Hall, Michael Frayn, Mark Boxer and Jonathan Miller. Her long and illustrious career in broadcasting has included being the only woman presenter on BBC TV's Late Night Line Up, being Arts Correspondent for Newsnight, Chair of the BFI, and presenting series such as Heart of the Matter and My Generation.
Following the publication of her autobiography THE CENTRE OF THE BED in 2003, she has published STOP THE CLOCKS and THE VIEW FROM HERE as well as the novels ALL THE NICE GIRLS and SHE'S LEAVING HOME. She was awarded a life peerage in 2010 and is President of Birkbeck, University of London.