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This is no ordinary celebrity autobiography but a memoir that is beautifully written, frank and absorbing, which draws a thought-provoking portrait of Britain.
The TV journalist's latest memoir is peppered with musings on death and obituaries for things lost to modernity.
Built loosely on her much loved Guardian column 'Just 70' 'The View from Here' is Bakewell's discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond.

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From the Publisher

Joan Bakewell was born in Stockport in 1933, the daughter of an engineer, granddaughter of working-class artisans. She was the first in her family to go to university and only the second woman from her grammar school to attend Cambridge, where her circle included Frederick Raphael, Peter Hall, Michael Frayn, Mark Boxer and Jonathan Miller. Her long and illustrious career in broadcasting has included being the only woman presenter on BBC TV's Late Night Line Up, being Arts Correspondent for Newsnight, Chair of the BFI, and presenting series such as Heart of the Matter and My Generation.

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The Guardian
The Observer
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Woman's Hour
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Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed, 2003

Contents
Prologue
Chapter One: Roots

Prologue
1. Roots
2. Mother Love
3. Other Shores
4. Being a Girl
5. Wartime
6. Certainties
7. Cambridge Days
8. The Big Wide World
9. The Party
10. Late Nights
11. Family and Friends
12. The Secret
13.Television Times
14. Arts Matters
15. The Heart of Things
16. Veteran
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index

Prologue

The room in which I am sitting is white. White as a blank, a fresh sheet of paper. The room is also empty. Indeed, emptiness is its prevailing characteristic. Echoing, without life. There are big spaces in all directions, across to the long french windows, which open not on to green lawns but on to a balcony, which surveys great swathes of London to the south and east, stretched out across the sky, the London Eye and Canary Wharf winking in the distance. The sun comes in through the windo

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Novels

All the Nice Girls (2009)
She’s Leaving Home (2011)

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Non fiction

The New Priesthood (1970)
A Fine and Private Place (1977)
The Heart of the Heart of the Matter (1996)
Carole Hodgson (1999)
The Centre of the Bed (2003)
John Keane (2004)
Idler Food Issue 34 Winter 2004 (2004)
Belief (2005)
The View from Here (2006)
Stop the Clocks (2016)
The Tick of Two Clocks (2021)

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The Centre of the Bed

The story of Joan Bakewell’s life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the glittering era of Michael Frayn, Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller et al, London at its sixties peak and the world of the media and the arts from the 60s to the present. Her career spans over 40 years, including 13 years as presenter of ‘Heart of the Matter’, six years as BBC television’s arts correspondent presenting for ‘Newsnight’ and as the anchorwoman for BBC2’s ‘Late Night Line Up’ in the 19