Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell (born Joan Dawson Rowlands on April 16 1933) is a British journalist and television presenter.

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Born in Stockport, Cheshire, Bakewell was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she first came into contact with another future journalist, Brian Redhead.

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She first became well known as one of the presenters of an early BBC2 programme, Late Night Line-Up (1965-72). Frank Muir dubbed her "the thinking man's crumpet" during this period, and the epithet has stuck.

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For Granada Television during 1976-78 she co-presented Reports Action, a Sunday teatime programme which encouraged the public to donate their services to various good causes. Subsequently, she returned to the BBC, and co-presented a short-lived late night television arts programme; briefly worked on the BBC Radio 4 PM programme and was Newsnight's arts correspondent (1986-88) before apparently being sacked by John Birt.

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Later she came to the fore as the main presenter of the documentary series Heart of the Matter.

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She was Chairman of the British Film Institute from 2000 to 2002.

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She was appointed a CBE in 1999.

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Her autobiography, The Centre of the Bed, (ISBN 0-340-82310-0) was published in 2004. It describes at length her affair with Harold Pinter, while he was still married to the actress Vivien Merchant.

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Journalist: A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people....

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