Joan Bakewell
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Bakewell DBE |
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| Born |
Joan Dawson Rowlands 16 April 1933 Heaton Moor, , Cheshire, England |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
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| Employer | BBC |
| Title | President of Birkbeck, University of London |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Spouse(s) |
Michael Bakewell (1955–1972; two children) Jack Emery (1975–2001) |
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is a British journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London.
Bakewell was born Joan Dawson Rowlands on 16 April 1933 in Heaton Moor, , Cheshire, England, and moved to Hazel Grove before she was three. The Rowlands family stemmed from the lead mining villages of the Ystwyth valley, in Wales. Her great-grandfather moved to Salford, where he was a preacher in the Church Army. On the maternal side, the family were coopers, and settled in the Gorton district of Manchester.
She was educated at , a grammar school in local authority control, where she became head girl. She won a scholarship and attended the University of Cambridge, where she studied Economics, then History.
From 1962 to 1969, she had an affair with Harold Pinter while she was married to Michael Bakewell.
Joan Bakewell first became well known as one of the presenters of an early BBC Two programme, Late Night Line-Up (1965–72 and 2008). Frank Muir dubbed her "the thinking man's crumpet" during this period and the moniker stuck, although Bakewell herself dislikes the epithet. In 1968 she took the role of narrator of the BBC TV production of Cold Comfort Farm, a three-part serial, and played a TV interviewer in the cult swinging 60's film The Touchables.
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