About Joan Bakewell
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has received a Humanist of the Year award for services to humanism. Bakewell starred in 4 series of Granada's pioneering Reports Action, a series that first encouraged the public to contribute goods and services to good causes. She first became known as one of the presenters of the BBC2 programme Late Night Line-Up (1965–72 and 2008). Bakewell was educated at Stockport High School for Girls, a grammar school in local authority control, where she became head girl.
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