Joan Bakewell

The Baroness Bakewell
Bakewell in 2018
Born
Joan Dawson Rowlands

(1933-04-16) 16 April 1933 (age 91)
EducationNewnham College, Cambridge (BA)
Occupations
Years active1965–present
EmployerBBC
TitlePresident of Birkbeck, University of London
Political partyLabour
Spouses
(m. 1955; div. 1972)
(m. 1975; div. 2001)
Children2

Dame Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933), is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. 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.