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English journalist, television presenter and politician (born 1933)

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Not to be confused with Cathy Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville.

Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell (néeRowlands; born 16 April 1933), is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Partypeer.

Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has received a Humanist of the Year award for services to humanism.

Early life and education

Bakewell was born on 16 April 1933 in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, England, and moved to Hazel Grove before she was three.^[1] Both her grandfathers were factory workers: the Rowlands branch stemmed from the lead mining villages of the Ystwyth valley, in Wales.

Her great-grandfather moved to Salford, where he was a preacher in the Church Army. Her grandfather was an iron turner. On the maternal side, her grandf