Joan Bakewell. She explained: “They would’ve said, well, that’s just to do with your private life. “So I wasn’t going to vote Labour, didn’t support the Labour party at that time and I had to explain that to Ed Miliband. Guest Editor: The Big Issue, 15th September 2014, Sky Arts: ‘Absolutely not’, 'Where do I think best? In bed' – authors reveal their dream retreats, Cambridge, love, a BBC career: my 20s seem a golden era when we really felt free, My peerage gave me the golden opportunity to be useful in retirement. Why can’t England and Wales have humanist weddings, as Scotland has? All rights reserved. The Labour Party peer describes being the ‘victim of unwanted attention’ in the 1950s and 1960s. Recent BBC Radio & Dame Joan Bakewell was fined by the police after she left her keyless Mini running while she was on a weekend away. Between 2008 and 2010 she acted as a Voice of Older People, Part-time study that leads to a full university degree is the key to getting round our graduate job problem, says Joan Bakewell, The government wants pensioners to return to education because it will make them 'more employable'. Joan Bakewell was born on April 16, 1933 in Stockport, Cheshire, England as Joan Dawson Rowlands. Michele Hanson is unconvinced, but others can see the appeal, Christian Guy, Peter Beresford, Joan Bakewell, Ros Altmann and Simon Gillespie: The Centre for Social Justice says funding should target the poor, contradicting the Dilnot commission. Coronavirus could be too, Skype lessons and exercise plans: how older people are preparing for lockdown, How talking more about death could ease the trauma of postmortems. Joan Bakewell is a broadcaster, writer and Labour peer. “I said, ‘I’d like you to go away and consider whether you want me to be a Labour peer and I have to consider whether I want to be,’ so we agreed to speak again at which point Ed said, ‘Yes, I would like you to,’ and I said, ‘I will accept.’”, Available for everyone, funded by readers. How should we fund long-term elderly care? Television Contributions. She said there was no point in discussing harassment with senior figures at the BBC “because they would be doing the same thing”. 1971, Radio 4: We Need to Talk about Death: Series 3, Radio 4: We Need to Talk about Death: Series 2, Radio 4: We Need to Talk about Death: Series 1, Virago: Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind. Joan Bakewell is an author, journalist and broadcaster. See full bio » Bakewell has spoken previously of her support for the #MeToo movement, which campaigns against sexual violence, hailing its values and female solidarity. Joan Bakewell and Dawn Foster debate whether it should be encouraged, Michele Hanson's good-humoured memoir sheds light on life for a nice Jewish girl in the 1950s, writes. 4th February 2016, Radio 4 Book of the Week: Stop the Clocks. She is a writer and actress, known for Iris (2001), The Touchables (1968) and Mother Love (1989). When asked whether she reported the minister to police, she said there would have been no point. Joan Bakewell has said she was sexually harassed early in her career by a junior government minister, as she described sexism she experienced while working for the BBC. She has served on the board of the National Theatre and as Chair of the British Film Institute and of the National Campaign for the Arts. 1953 - Joan Bakewell on feminism in the 1970s: ‘Might a woman read the news?’ I asked. All rights reserved. What the Grown-Ups Were Doing by Michele Hanson – review, Favourite book festival moments: Joan Bakewell. She is President of Birkbeck College, London, and a member of the House of Lords. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Joan Bakewell on John Bellany: 'He told me the painting so absorbed him, the pain was kept at bay', Michele Hanson, Bamber Gascoigne, Diana Athill and others on going back to university after 60, Paperback Q&A: Joan Bakewell on She's Leaving Home. You’re alright, he’s not done anything that breaks the law.”. Portrait of the Year: Co-Presenter with Frank Skinner. Our Classical Century. Joan Bakewell has said she was sexually harassed early in her career by a junior government minister, as she described sexism she experienced while working for the BBC. “I marched against the Iraq war with about a million other people,” she said. In the interview, she also described accepting a peerage from the former Labour leader Ed Miliband despite voting for the Green party at the previous election due to her anger over the Iraq war. The parallels today are striking, says broadcaster Joan Bakewell, The coronavirus crisis means those with less life left are being asked to give up many remaining pleasures – but perhaps there are ways that this could enhance old age, Too often bereaved families are unprepared for what the involvement of the coroner entails, says broadcaster Joan Bakewell, Humanists UK has patiently answered every objection and concern – it’s now time for change, says humanist Joan Bakewell, While writers from Germaine Greer to Polly Toynbee brought feminism into public discourse, institutional change proved harder to foster – even with the Equal Pay Act, A hotel on the Moray Firth estuary; an adrenaline-filled auction room in west London; an ad man’s office in Manhattan on DVD … AL Kennedy, William Boyd and others celebrate their cultural hideouts, Innovative television producer behind BBC2’s Late Night Line-Up, Yes, we had the Cuba missile crisis and nuclear war seemed imminent – but in many ways I think young people have it harder today, One of the problems of retiring is what to do with one’s time; this job gets me out of the house and brings me into daily contact with issues that matter, Broadcaster and regular presenter on BBC2’s Late Night Line-Up in the 1960s and 70s, It’s claimed that downsizing could free up to 2.5m homes in the UK. Between 2008 and 2010 she acted as a Voice of Older People June 2020 Vera Lynn's soaring voice gave Britons hope when hope was most scarce The car owned by the Labour peer and BBCbroadcaster, 87, was found on a … Home News. She was previously married to Jack Emery and Michael Bakewell. Vera Lynn's soaring voice gave Britons hope when hope was most scarce, VE Day was the spark for change. Joan Bakewell tells of being assaulted by a government minister. Should older people downsize to help solve the housing crisis? “I was assaulted by a member of the government in a taxi when I went to fetch him from the House of Commons to come on the programme,” she said. “He would invite them home and behave badly and they began to tell each other. “They began to share the secret with each other and found it hateful and so they decided that they would all get together and as a group make a protest about this person. “And they went to the head of department and it eventually went up to, I think as far as the controller, and the person was reprimanded and then he was promoted.”, Although there were “numbers of predators” within the BBC, Bakewell said no one knew about Jimmy Savile at the time, but added: “We all thought he was extremely weird.”. “There was someone who was persistently harassing a whole department of women as it were, one by one,” she said. “You know, this kind of thing happened, it happened all the time.”. The broadcaster told Times Radio about a career spanning more than 50 years, and revealed how she was the “victim of unwelcome attention” during the 1950s and 1960s. Radio 4: Suppose I Lose It, 15th December 2014. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Our panel responds, Joan Bakewell: Older people need a sympathetic individual to speak up for them, and help them navigate the complexities of social care, In the latest of our regular series of guest posts by writers and critics, Joan Bakewell reflects on the urgency of big ideas, Available for everyone, funded by readers, Lynn’s songs of optimism and love exemplified the very best of what we thought ourselves to be, writes Joan Bakewell, I remember the euphoria of 8 May 1945, and the push for a fairer society that followed. Series 1: Episode 3. Broadcaster says junior minister had to be ‘fended off’ after he made a grab for her, Sun 20 Sep 2020 08.52 BST Baroness Joan Bakewell, 87, has revealed to Times Radio that a junior minister, who has since died, had to be 'fended off' after he made a grab for her early in … Lady Bakewell, who fronted factual programmes including Late Night Line-Up and Heart of the Matter, described how a group of women at the BBC attempted to lodge a complaint against a male member of staff who later got promoted “pretty near the top”. 1st February 2016. In the interview, the 87-year-old described how a junior minister, who has since died, had to be “fended off” after he made a grab for her. Joan Bakewell is a broadcaster, writer and Labour peer. Last modified on Sun 20 Sep 2020 18.18 BST.

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