Joan Bakewell
Biography
Long-serving presenter of arts programming, starting with Late Night Line-Up in 1965. Also cornered the market in programmes about ethics and moral issues, most significantly Heart of the Matter which she presented for 12 years from 1987 to 1999.
She was made a dame in 2008, and a peer (Baroness Bakewell of Stockport) in 2011.
Trivia
Once wrote a sitcom in collaboration with Jeremy Vine (who'd been a researcher on Heart of the Matter). It never got made as the premise was similar to The Vicar of Dibley which arrived first and stole their thunder.
