All rights reserved. Should older people downsize to help solve the housing crisis? 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. You’re alright, he’s not done anything that breaks the law.”. 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 … Guest Editor: The Big Issue, 15th September 2014, Sky Arts: Why can’t England and Wales have humanist weddings, as Scotland has? Bakewell has spoken previously of her support for the #MeToo movement, which campaigns against sexual violence, hailing its values and female solidarity. “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. Vera Lynn's soaring voice gave Britons hope when hope was most scarce, VE Day was the spark for change. “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. “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.”. Joan Bakewell tells of being assaulted by a government minister. Joan Bakewell is a broadcaster, writer and Labour peer. 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. 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 … Joan Bakewell on feminism in the 1970s: ‘Might a woman read the news?’ I asked. Joan Bakewell was born on April 16, 1933 in Stockport, Cheshire, England as Joan Dawson Rowlands. What the Grown-Ups Were Doing by Michele Hanson – review, Favourite book festival moments: Joan Bakewell. ‘Absolutely not’, 'Where do I think best? 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. She said there was no point in discussing harassment with senior figures at the BBC “because they would be doing the same thing”. 1953 - See full bio » 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. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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. Last modified on Sun 20 Sep 2020 18.18 BST. She is a writer and actress, known for Iris (2001), The Touchables (1968) and Mother Love (1989). 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”. Portrait of the Year: Co-Presenter with Frank Skinner. The Labour Party peer describes being the ‘victim of unwanted attention’ in the 1950s and 1960s. “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. Joan Bakewell. 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. “He would invite them home and behave badly and they began to tell each other. “You know, this kind of thing happened, it happened all the time.”. 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'. “There was someone who was persistently harassing a whole department of women as it were, one by one,” she said. “I marched against the Iraq war with about a million other people,” she said. Joan Bakewell is an author, journalist and broadcaster. 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