http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/joan_bakewell en http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/11/british-library-war-called-age http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/11/british-library-war-called-age Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:32:47 GMT Joan Bakewell

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260042 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell Chin Up, Girls! A book of women's obituaries from the Daily Telegraph Edited by Georgia Powell and Katharine Ramsay John Murray, 362pp, £16.99 ISBN 0719563003

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200508080034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200508080034 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell Take a Girl Like Me Diana Melly Chatto & Windus, 280pp, £14.99 ISBN 0701179066

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200411220002 http://www.newstatesman.com/200411220002 Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell In Cape Town, some accuse the Mbeki government of genocide because of its position on Aids. Is the world listening? Or have we all gone down with genocide fatigue?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200408230003 http://www.newstatesman.com/200408230003 Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell I'm staying at the same hotel in Edinburgh as Lynne Truss and Barbara Trapido. At 2am a fire alarm brings a drift of authors downstairs in red satin pyjamas, kaftans, neat T-shirts

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403220007 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403220007 Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell At the Spitz gallery, I see the wall where Betsy Schneider's photographs of her naked little daughter once hung. The empty hooks and spaces are sad evidence of paedophile hysteria

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200310130003 http://www.newstatesman.com/200310130003 Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell Since the story of my love affair with Harold Pinter was published, journalists have been asking if I was going to the first night of his play. Best, I thought, to catch a preview

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200304070002 http://www.newstatesman.com/200304070002 Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell I watch the poet Thom Gunn receive a literary award. I remember him from Cambridge in 1953, and I swear he was wearing the same leather jacket and buckled leather belt

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200211180003 http://www.newstatesman.com/200211180003 Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell I took my grandson to St Paul's Cathedral to show him Nelson's tomb, but the entry charge is now £6. "What if I just wanted to pray?" I asked, and got an icy response

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200205060001 http://www.newstatesman.com/200205060001 Mon, 06 May 2002 12:00:00 GMT Joan Bakewell With extreme distaste, I read a poem about a Roman centurion's homosexual fantasies about Christ. I hope it showed on my face. Not my kind of thing at all. By Joan Bakewell

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