Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell’s broadcasting career continues into its fourth decade with her series for BBC Radio 3: Belief. She also appears on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, BBC 1’s Daily Politics, and ITV’s Sunday programme. Her latest play was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2007. Her first novel, All The Good Girls, was published in February 2009 and her second, She's Leaving Home, in November 2011.

In July 2010, Joan presented a specially authored Panorama programme on which she explored the challenges ahead in caring for an ageing population, and made the point that the old keep on getting older.

In November 2010 she was made a working peer in the House of Lords.

Joan’s three areas of interest are : the arts, religion, and old age. She was BBC television’s arts correspondent throughout the 80’s, and was later on the board of the National Theatre, The Aldeburgh Festival, and Friends of the Tate. She is currently Chair of the theatre company Shared Experience and also of The National Campaign for the Arts.

In the 90's Joan presented Heart of the Matter on BBC 1 – a programme that dealt with moral and religious dilemmas of our times. A selection of her interviews for her radio series Belief was published in 2005. In 2003 she began a column for the Guardian called Just Seventy.

In 2007 she published The View from Here: Life at 70. Joan Bakewell, who stepped down as the government's Voice of Older People in April 2010, currently has a weekly column in the Independent each Friday.  

Joan also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. She has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.

Daily Mirror, International Women's Day: "My grandchildren's lives are better than mine... but there's still a long way to go"

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• HDTI Official Opening Event, 13 Jan 2010
  “The content and delivery of her opening address and afternoon lecture were absolutely perfect and exceeded our already high expectations. We were particularly delighted with her enthusiasm for what HDTI is doing and for her interest in those clients who she met and their products. We have already received several unsolicited, highly complementary comments from guests; these are some of the written ones:
  “Joan Bakewell was absolutely brilliant”
  “I really enjoyed the event and thought Dame Joan was an inspirational speaker – I particularly liked her “attitude”!”
  “It was a great event, and after Joan Bakewell’s lovely speech I was sorry not to be able to hear her longer lecture in the afternoon”
  "I think everyone who attended came away realising that to be old doesn’t mean you cannot be intelligent, articulate, interesting, lively or fun”
  
  
  
  
• CEL Conference Sept 2009 “
  "She was one of the most popular and inspiring speakers over the two conference days. I’m very pleased that Joan took the time and trouble to get to grips with the topics of interest to our sector, which meant that her presentation really struck a chord with delegates and her hosting of the question time session kept everyone well focused on the right kind of issues”
  
  
  
  
• NHS Alliance 12th Annual Conference
  “Thank you for your valuable contribution…The presentations given at the conference were very well received and we have had feedback from our delegates about the sessions and the event as a whole. You helped us to make this the best annual conference to date”