Joan Bakewell
Articles by Joan Bakewell
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Diary - Joan Bakewell
- 22 March 2004
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
Diary - Joan Bakewell
- 13 October 2003
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
Diary - Joan Bakewell
- 07 April 2003
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
Diary - Joan Bakewell
- 18 November 2002
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
Diary - Joan Bakewell
- 06 May 2002
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
As a child I was told that the correct term was "negro". Now it is "people of colour". It is hard to keep up
- 15 January 2001
The state of sodomy
- 04 December 2000
Film - Joan Bakewell slopes off to view Pasolini's most controversial film
Politics
Promises, promises for one and all
- 25 September 2000
With old loyalties gone, politicians must satisfy consumer appetites
Politics
Don't mess with our history
- 12 June 2000
Theme parks and films can't really tell us what it was like to be alive in the past
Politics
The believers who despise our ways
- 29 May 2000
Joan Bakewell attends the German trial of an Islamic leader and fears that, across Europe, democracy faces an alarming threat
