Joan Bakewell

Celebrity Portrait Artist of the Year is back for 2019! Joan Bakewell and Stephen Mangan present as celebrity contestants Mark Gatiss, Fenella Woolgar, Anneka Rice, James Fleet and Jenny Éclair will demonstrate their artistic flair in order to land the top prize. Catch it on 17 December at 8pm on…

Joan Bakewell returns to our screen to co-present a new series of Landscape Artist of the Year, in search for the nation's best landscape painter, starting at Smeaton's Tower in Plymouth. Starts Tuesday 12th October at 8pm on Sky Arts.

Jennie Bond, Suzannah Lipscomb and Joan Bakewell present a number of films in the new Channel 5 series Secrets of the National Trust which airs throughout August. From a curious round house in Devon to a tiny Hawkers Hut in Cornwall they take a look behind the scenes at some of the Trusts loved…

On Sunday 12th May, Joan Bakewell will accept her BAFTA Television Fellowship in recognition of her 50 years working in the television industry. Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional…

Huge congratulations to Joan Bakewell who is to be honoured with the BAFTA Television Fellowship in recognition of more than 50 years spent working in the TV industry. She is set to receive the award at the BAFTA Television Awards 2019 on Sunday 12th May.

Joan Bakewell explores classical music between 1953 and 1971, including the first broadcast of the Last Night Of The Proms and Britten's controversial War Requiem on Our Classical Century on Sunday 7th April at 9pm on BBC Four.