Dame Joan Bakewell, Stop The Clocks
Event WebsiteNow in her 80s, Dame Joan Bakewell is still broadcasting. Join her to hear about her book Stop the Clocks, which traverses the decades through a fascinating life. Covering beginnings, values, money, loss and death, she looks at the world that has shaped her. Dame Joan was a grammar school girl brought up in Stockport and she is now a Labour Peer and President of Birkbeck College. She has been a teacher, copy writer, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government’s Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company, Shared Experience.
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