Profession: Journalist and presenter
Place/Date of Birth: Stockport, Cheshire, 16 April 2020

Joan Bakewell Now ensconced in Primrose Hill, Joan was born in Stockport in 1933 and went to Newnham College Cambridge before embarking on a distinguished broadcasting career. She’ll never be allowed to forget that in the sixties she was labeled the thinking man’s crumpet - but then there are worse insults. She has never been scared to tackle difficult subject material and she interviewed Myra Hindley and Mrs Fred West. She moved to London in 1955 - she’s said that she was glad to get away from Stockport. Joan hit the headlines recently with her series Taboo in which an erect human penis (albeit heavily pixilated) was shown on terrestrial TV for the first time. Despite her willingness to tackle tricky material, Ms Bakewell has described herself as ’a bit of a goody two-shoes’. Of Primrose Hill, where she has lived for 39 years, Joan told the Standard: "I remember when it was very down market - old prams in the street and the steam from the trains at Euston making the curtains rot. It’s changed beyond recognition, but I still love it."

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