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When Frost Met Bakewell: Joan Bakewell at 80

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Pioneering female BBC broadcaster of the 1960s, Joan Bakewell subjects herself to an interrogation by David Frost, looking back on more than 50 years at the heart of television and a life often lived in the glare of celebrity. From her early years as the face of Late Night Line Up, the end-of-the-day live programme that broke the rules of polite television, through to her days on Newsnight, covering arts, entertainment, politics and even pornography, this no-holds barred interview recalls how it was to be a lone woman at the BBC, the fun she had in swinging London and how she came to be branded 'the thinking man's crumpet'. Show less

Contributors

Interviewer:
David Frost
Interviewer:
David Frost
Interviewed Guest:
Joan Bakewell
Interviewed Guest:
Joan Bakewell
Executive Producer:
Basil Comely
Executive Producer:
Basil Comely

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