Joan Bakewell

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Diary

The remarkable range of Glenda Jackson

Also this week: admiring the Elgin Marbles, and enduring the rigmarole of chemotherapy.

By Joan Bakewell

Diary

Joan Bakewell’s Diary: living with cancer, and the age of the grandparent

By Joan Bakewell

UK Politics

Joan Bakewell’s Diary: Poems for prisoners, a virtual send-off, broadcasting from home and comfort in blooms

By Joan Bakewell

Observations

Joan Bakewell’s Diary: Talking to centenarians about death

By Joan Bakewell

Diary: The summer’s musical promise, the withering of the BBC, and universities after Brexit

By Joan Bakewell

All Articles

Battle of the Beatles: George Harrison

Fabbest of the four

By Joan Bakewell

We lost. But the fight continues

Labour cannot let the coalition ruin the NHS.

By Joan Bakewell

Murdoch could have “media power unheard of in British history”

As the News Corporation takeover of BSkyB hangs in the balance, Joan Bakewell grills Mark Thompson,

By Joan Bakewell

Promises, promises for one and all

With old loyalties gone, politicians must satisfy consumer appetites

By Joan Bakewell

Don’t mess with our history

Theme parks and films can't really tell us what it was like to be alive in the past

By Joan Bakewell

The believers who despise our ways

Joan Bakewell attends the German trial of an Islamic leader and fears that, across Europe, democracy

By Joan Bakewell