Joan Dawson Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, FRSA, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. She is President of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright. Bakewell was born on 16 April 1933 in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, England.
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Joan Dawson Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, FRSA, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. She is President of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism. Bakewell was born on 16 April 1933 in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, England. She was educated at Stockport High School for Girls, a grammar school in local authority control. She won a scholarship and attended Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, where she studied Economics, then History. She began her career as a studio manager for BBC Radio, before moving into television. She first became known as one of the presenters of the BBC2 programme, Late Night Line-Up. In 2001, Bakewell wrote and presented a four-part series for BBC Two called Taboo, a personal exploration of the concepts of taste, decency and censorship.
The programme dealt frankly with sex and nudity and in some cases pushed the boundaries of what is permissible on mainstream television. In 2009 she won the annual Stonewall Award for Humanism. In 2017 she was one of two hosts of the Channel 5 documentary series Secrets of the Portrait of the Artist of the Year alongside Stephen Mangan for Sky Television. In September 2008 she began a fortnightly column in The Times, focusing on social and political aspects to life in the United Kingdom. She wrote the column for The Guardian newspaper from 2003, from 2003 to 2008. She has also written for The Independent in the ‘Editorial and Opinion section’ of The Independent since 2008. In 2012 she became a member of the National Portrait Trust, a body which promotes the art of portraiture. In 2013, she was awarded the Stonewalls Humanist Award for humanist services.
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