Now 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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