Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell was born in Stockport in 1933 and went on to become a celebrated radio and television broadcaster, co-presenting BBC's Late Night Line Up until 1972 and later Heart of the Matter , for which she won a BAFTA for television journalism. She was awarded a CBE for services to the arts and television in 1999. Joan Bakewell's autobiography, The Centre of the Bed , was published in 2003. Belief , which she edited, was published in 2005 to accompany the Radio 4 series of the same name....See more

Joan Bakewell was born in Stockport in 1933 and went on to become a celebrated radio and television broadcaster, co-presenting BBC's Late Night Line Up until 1972 and later Heart of the Matter , for which she won a BAFTA for television journalism. She was awarded a CBE for services to the arts and television in 1999. Joan Bakewell's autobiography, The Centre of the Bed , was published in 2003. Belief , which she edited, was published in 2005 to accompany the Radio 4 series of the same name. Joan Bakewell lives in London. The View from Here: Life at Seventy was first published in 2006. See less