Joan Bakewell

Contents

Shows

Artist of the Year

The Brains Trust

The Culture Club

What's it All About? (2)

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.

Web links

Wikipedia entry

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