Podcast appearances and mentions of Joan Bakewell

The 1944 Education Act introduced free secondary education for all pupils, but only came about thanks to a meeting with Winston Churchill leaning back in bed wearing a night cap.Matt looks at the impact of the reforms and how schools have changed since with Michael Barber, Joan Bakewell, Britain's oldest teacher and Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson.Plus: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Bell react to Rishi Sunak's warning to the House of Lords not to block the Rwanda bill, and ITV's Anushka Asthana explains what it was like filming with Keir Starmer for three months. Columnist Panel (03:10)Happy Birthday, Schools! (22:10) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our 3rd episode features Edwina (Eddie) Brocklesby -  The oldest British woman doing the Ironman competition at age 80 who founded the charity Silverfit in her 70s. We listened to Eddie's influential and happy childhood stories: How her father's work had a big influence on her career and her grandma was Churchill's cook. We talked about her passion for social work and how she started running at age 50, prompted by her late husband Phill.  Stay tuned to find out how she started Ironman - a 2.4-mile swim in open water, followed by an agonising 112-mile bike ride, then a full marathon. Eddie has tackled six Ironmans, seven triathlons, five duathlons and seven London Marathons! Not only did she start a new sport, but Eddie changed career in her 70s! Check out   Silverfit - a charity that aims to promote happier, healthier ageing through physical activity.  We talked about her upcoming Race Across America 2024 - the hardest supported endurance cycle race in the world.  At age 81, she will be part of a relay team cycling 3000+ miles over 9 days with three amazing women ages 76, 60 and 53. Their goal is to prove that fitness truly has no age limit Dear Eddie,I am grateful that our lives have crossed and thank you for showing me the power of positivity and determination: From limited physical activity to participation in marathons, Ironman and now Race across America, you truly show me that we can achieve anything when we put our mind into it and life is a blessing so we need to make the most out of it! Love, NicoleBelow are the links that we discussed in the podcast: 1.  Film of Joan Bakewell interviewing Eddie's grandmother – Georgina Landemare's  Churchill's cook. 2. Donate to support Eddie's 2024 Race Across America 3. Documentary film about Eddie4. CNN article on EddieSupport the showIntrigued by the conversation? Get involve using the following ways: Sign up to have your life story record and become a Beyonder on our Web Follow us @ Beyondhood on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn Become a member by contributing $ each month. You can ask questions and nominate Beyonders to be on the show. Creativity costs time & effort & $ and no $ is too small. If $ is an issue, please send me a hug or an encouraging email - still works! *10% of the profit will be donated to the interviewee's chosen charity. Take a look at the Now and Then pictures of our Beyonder on our Web Email me at gobeyondelderhood@gmail.com

Nick and Angela welcome their first siblings to DISH HQ. Stephen Mangan is an actor, writer and presenter known for his roles in Green Wing with Olivia Colman, I'm Alan Partridge and The Split opposite Nicola Walker. He currently presents Portrait Artist of the Year with Joan Bakewell. Anita Mangan is an illustrator who has designed over 70 cookbooks including Kelis' My Life on a Plate, Gizzi Erskine's Seasons Greetings and Fearne Cotton's Cook Happy Cook Healthy. The brother and sister have just released their third kids' book, The Unlikely Rise of Harry Sponge. Angela cooks the most delicious Palestinian slow-roast lamb for Stephen and Anita, which leaves the crew salivating on the sidelines. Nick mixes a Stanley Tucci-inspired negroni to start, and then pours an organic red, Los Tontos Sabios. Stephen and Anita are a charming pair who share stories of their relationship over the years, Anita presents Nick and Angela with a gift she's made herself and Stephen reveals the (hilarious) impact that Alan Partridge has on his daily life. Just so you know, our podcast might contain the occasional mild swear word or adult theme. All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish We can't all have a Michelin star chef in the kitchen, but you can ask Angela for help. Send your dilemmas to dish@waitrose.co.uk and she'll try to answer in a future episode. Dish is a S:E Creative Studio production for Waitrose & Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She was made a peer in 2011, but Dame Joan Bakewell regards herself first and foremost as a journalist and writer. From a very young age, Joan developed a passion for reading, leading to a discovery of 'an internal life'. She speaks to James about her authoritarian mother, the enormous freedom she had making television in the 1970s and her philosophy.

For a long time, Joan Bakewell has been a professional inspiration to me: a broadcasting superstar whose professional longevity is a testament to her talent, curiosity and hard work. She is a few months shy of her 90th birthday but still as busy as ever, presenting Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year for Sky Arts. She's also a peer of the realm and the president of Birkbeck, University of London.Baroness Bakewell joins me to talk about her extraordinary career interviewing everyone from Marcel Duchamp to Nelson Mandela. Plus: sexism, class, her failure to become an actress, her memories of the Blitz, her two divorces and her long-running affair with the esteemed playwright Harold Pinter.It was such an amazing conversation and a real honour for me to talk to this thoroughly wonderful woman.--My new book, FRIENDAHOLIC: Confessions of a Friendship Addict, will be published next month and is now available to preorder - at half price - here.--How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com--Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayHow To Fail @howtofailpodJoan Bakewell @JDBakewell

It's ten wins from eleven Test matches from McCullum and Stokes as England's ridiculous resurgence continues. Whereas the Aussies are finding things a little tougher in India. Elsewhere, Finny discusses bad kits and the "poo-nightwatchman" whilst Dan has been upsetting "The Nighthawk" AND causing trouble on the airwaves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joan Bakewell, 89, is a Labour peer is a broadcasting legend. She was one of the first women to be taken seriously in television and on radio. She broke boundaries with her arts and investigative programmes but was in a constant battle to pursue her career in an environment where institutional sexism and discrimination were rife. Her private life was equally fascinating, she juggled two children, a high-powered job, two marriages and a seven-year affair with the playwright Harold Pinter who wrote a play based on their relationship, Betrayal. “Even when she was behaving badly, she behaved well,” one fellow journalist commented at the time. Today she discusses her novel cancer treatment, sex, music and miniskirts, death and growing up during the War in the industrial North of England. Warning: Contains discussions of sensitive subjects including cancer and sexual abuse.-------OUT Links for Additional support (on Past Imperfect pod pages Website) Child abusehttps://www.nspcc.org.uk Cancer Supporthttps://www.mariecurie.org.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joan Bakewell and Hanna Flint give their verdicts on Hugo Blick's new TV Western on BBC2 starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, 'The English'. They've also watched new film 'Living' starring Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood with a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, based on an Akira Kurosawa film, 'Ikiru', about a man at the end of his life. Royal Opera House Opera Director Oliver Mears discusses his new production of Benjamin Britten's 'The Rape of Lucretia' and the challenges he's faced staging a work that deals with sexual violence. Image: 2022 The English (c) Drama Republic/BBC/Amazon Studios Photographer: Diego Lopez Calvin Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Sarah Johnson

With Rishi Sunak becoming prime minister at 42, Patrick Maguire asks: Are MPs really getting younger? And does age matter in politics? He's joined by broadcaster Joan Bakewell, former Lib Dem leader Vince Cable, politics professor Tim Bale and Alexander Curtis, who was one of the youngest mayors in British history.Plus columnists Melanie Reid and James Forsyth discuss 'Rishinomics', a possible deal with France over channel migrants, and whether Twitter has been good or bad for our national conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dame Joan Bakewell is synonymous with our arts broadcasting landscape: former BBC television art correspondent in the 1980's, columnist for most of the major broadsheets at one time or other and presenter of numerous radio and televisions series. Former colleagues, Roger and Joan discuss how broadcasting has evolved, ageism, ethics and fake phone-ins. “There was an immediacy about it, which was very enjoyable, people liked that it was real, it was live. People could phone in, we sometimes faked that and phoned in our own messages. Various people used to do that, Barry Humphries being one because he could do multitude of voices, and would pretend to ring up and say, ‘I'm absolutely shocked and disgusted by what's on BBC television at the moment”.@BeebRogerroger@rogerboltonsbeebwatch Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 22, 2021 is: roister • ROY-ster • verb Roister means "to engage in noisy partying or celebration." // Fans roistered after their team won the championship. See the entry > Examples: "Of course, my student life wasn't all angst and regret. I spent much of my time falling in and out of love and roistering around the world of Cambridge theatre." — Joan Bakewell, The Guardian (London), 8 Sept. 2021 Did you know? Roister is related to French ruste, meaning "rude" or "rough." That word comes from the fairly neutral Latin rusticus, meaning "rural." Originally, the English verb was simply roist, and one who roisted was a roister. Those words are no longer used; instead, we have the verb roister, and the corresponding noun roisterer.

A conversation with a homeless man about how he looked after his much loved dog, led Michelle, Southern, to launch a charity providing free veterinary care for the pets of homeless people. Street Paws looks after the animals and provides emergency housing for them if their owners have to go into hospital, it also supports hostels and trains their staff in the care of animals so that homeless people can access their services. Michelle movingly describes the fiercely protective relationship homeless people have with their animals and how, in the early days of Street Paws, it took time to win their trust. She talks about how the pandemic helped to accelerate one of her key aims, and how she fought to help devoted pet owners not to be separated from their animals. She shares her dreams for the charity she started and runs, and the actions she'd like to see taken to help people out of the cycle of homelessness. Oh, and she reveals what her favourite breed of dog is.    In this episode we're also joined by journalist, presenter and Labour Party peer, the magnificent Dame Joan Bakewell who recalls the early days of the Women of the Year Lunch, how, on her time at the event,  she was predominantly preoccupied by how the dress she was wearing would look, and how being there made, and makes, her conscious of being part of the onward tide of women's progress.

Its knack for creating tension and controversy has helped it remain an energising force in publishing for more than 50 years – but how do writers, publishers and judges cope with the annual agony of the Booker? By Charlotte Higgins. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

In this week's Book Club podcast Sam's guest is Joan Bakewell, who talks on the podcast about her new book The Tick Of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On. It describes how she made the decision to sell the house she lived in for half a century, and what it meant to her to face up to old age, and take stock of the past.

In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is Joan Bakewell, who talks to me about her new book The Tick Of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On. It describes how she made the decision to sell the house she lived in for half a century, and what it meant to her to face up to old age, and take stock of the past.

Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy

News with Paddy O'Connell including a look at new isolation rules for essential workers, plus what life is like in Afghanistan after the British and American military pulled out. Reviewing the news: Nimco Ali, Joan Bakewell and Adrian Goldberg.

In the fifth episode of Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women, Rachel is joined by television presenter, journalist and Labour Party peer, Baroness Joan Bakewell BDE. In this new LBC podcast, Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women, Rachel speaks with women who had to be a pain in the backside to get where they are today. Women who take the word difficult as a compliment not an insult. And women who had to fight, resist, insist, or otherwise be badly behaved in order to get things done. Listen and subscribe now on Global Player, or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Rachel on Twitter: @RachelSJohnson

It was such a pleasure for my latest Nostalgia Interview to catch up with Kate Fox – poet, stand up comedian, academic, journalist, broadcaster and ethnographer. Kate talks about her last gig before lockdown, our love of lattes and living by the sea, and her connection with the University of Kent through comedy studies and the Autism and the Arts festivals. We discuss our conference food experiences and how buffets and carveries are likely to be casualties of the pandemic. Kate relays her lockdown experiences and what has changed for her. We learn that she recorded an episode of Radio 4’s Pick of the Week from her living room on her phone and why she has no urge to do proper stand up in front of a Zoom audience. Kate has written a book about Northern women, and she talks about whether Covid has given us a chance to do things differently in this new hybrid world as well as about the way in which universities have changed since the 1990s in terms of the way they deal with disability and neurodiversity and enabling students to flourish.  Kate did communication and media studies at Loughborough and comes from a working class background. She had to prove why she needed to go to university in order to become a journalist and we learn about the advice she received from Ian Hislop. Her PhD looked at Northern women and the idea of resistance and class and why she found doing it so empowering. She explains why we can have the carnivalesque in academia and Kate talks about the countercultural nature of comedy studies. We talk about how she discovered Leonard Cohen when she was 16 and how her two favourite films at university were Clueless and Schindler’s List. Kate worked for commercial local radio and we learn why her northern voice was a barrier to reading the news. She ended up having a regular poetry slot on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, and Kate talks about her book on northern women and how some northern women radio and TV presenters from the past, such as Joan Bakewell, may no longer get work because they are perceived as being too posh. Kate reflects on why some people are nostalgic for the idea of a strong northern woman such as Betty Boothroyd and Hilda Ogden, she talks about what her younger self would think about what she has done with her life, and at the end of the interview I ask Kate if she considers herself to be a trailblazer. We also learn why Kate is totally stuck in the 1980s. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Kate Fox and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

The work of the American writer James Baldwin gained a new audience in the months following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Europe and the USA. His observations on race, power and black identity, featured in clips from 1960s chat shows, were widely shared on social media. A spirited performance in a 1965 Cambridge Union debate titled The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro is now considered a landmark moment. But in the late 1980s, Baldwin's light was fading, and he was living a quiet life in the south of France when theatre producer and director Anton Phillips of Carib Theatre decided to revive his 1954 play The Amen Corner at London's Tricycle Theatre. It transferred to London's Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue - becoming the first all black production to transfer from Fringe to the West End. At Phillips' invitation, Baldwin made the trip to London to meet the cast in final rehearsals and see the production open. During the visit he stayed with one of the cast, Clarke Peters, and gave Joan Bakewell what would be one of his last interviews. He died a few months later in December 1987. In this programme, Clarke Peters recalls that landmark 1987 production, his relationship with "Jimmy", and the lasting legacy of an extraordinary and insightful writer. Producer: Rosemary Laryea Editor: David Prest A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a new comedy chat show about shame and guilt. Each week, Stephen invites a different guest into his virtual confessional box to make three confessions - with remarkable storytelling and surprising insights. We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews where stars are persuaded to show off about their achievements. Stephen's not interested in that. He doesn’t want to know about his guests' proudest moments, he wants to know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest reflect with empathy and humour on why we get embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and the value of guilt. Series guests include Joan Bakewell, Clarke Peters, Phil Wang, Dr Phil Hammond and more. In this first episode, he takes the confession of the award winning improvisational comedian, actor and presenter of Griefcast, Cariad Lloyd. Written and presented by Stephen Mangan With extra material by Nick Doody Produced by Dave Anderson and Frank Stirling A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4

With Val McDermid’s iconic detective soon set to hit our screens, it couldn’t be a more perfect time to revisit Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit and the savvy, no-nonsense DCI Karen Pirie. A thrilling new head-scratcher from the undisputed ‘Queen of Crime,’ Still Life sees the much-loved detective inspector confronted by a decade-old cold case, drawing her into a historical cover-up that someone would do anything to keep under wraps. With all the dizzying narrative trickery and canny characterisation we’ve come to expect from one of our finest literary minds, this sixth instalment in the bestselling series is Val McDermid at the top of her game. Inspired in part by the wildly popular Portrait Artist of the Year competition, the ever-inventive author teases the mysterious connection between Still Life and the Sky Arts series in a conversation with one of its widely-admired presenters, Dame Joan Bakewell, recorded live at the 2020 Book Festival.

Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion.

Labour peer Baroness Joan Bakewell has been a television presenter for over fifty years, most recently fronting Landscape Artist of the Year which returned to our screen this week. She joins Richard and Nikki to explain why she has taken up watercolours in lockdown. Marc Hamer was homeless and worked on the railways before enrolling in art college. After discovering a creative outlet in gardening, Marc spent years creating and maintaining the garden of the mysterious, aristocratic Mrs Cashmere which is the subject of his memoir Seed to Dust. Jonny Oates ran away from home to Ethiopia aged 15 to contribute to famine relief efforts but his trip didn't go as he planned . He subsequently became a teacher in Zimbabwe, parliamentary adviser in the first democratic South African Parliament and Chief of Staff to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in the coalition government. Last June , Annie Birney and her partner Eoin Boyle swapped their lives in Dublin for a summer as caretakers of Great Blasket Island off the coast of Ireland. After beating over 24,000 applicants to the post, they spent three months looking after holiday guests on the remote island without electricity, WiFi or hot water. Annie joins us to discuss their extraordinary adventure. And we hear the Inheritance Tracks of YolanDa Brown. Producer: Laura Northedge Editor: Eleanor Garland

In this episode, Andrew speaks to journalist, television presenter, and Labour Party peer, Joan Bakewell about what she believes, from curiosity about the beliefs of others, the value of education, social justice, the value of age, giving up the idea of inevitable progress, and thinking about death.  

Joan Bakewell is a writer, broadcaster and Labour peer. Born in Stockport and educated at Cambridge, she began her career as an advertising copywriter before moving into broadcasting. A pioneering female on screen for the BBC in the ’60s, Joan’s television career started with Late Night Line-Up (1965-72), followed by Heart of the Matter (1988-2000). Joan has been a columnist for The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Telegraph. Her books include the autobiography The Centre of the Bed (2004), the novel All the Nice Girls (2009), and her heartfelt reflections on life with What I leave Behind (2016). Joan was made a CBE in 1999 and a Dame for her services to journalism and the arts in 2008. In January 2011 she took her seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport. Over the summer, Laura Barton joins our third podcast guest, Baroness Joan Bakewell in her North London garden to discuss growing up in Stockport, the shift she’s witnessed in women’s rights and the tiny changes that make life more tolerable.

For our fourth podcast series, writer and broadcaster Laura Barton explores the theme of Flux & Flow, how we navigate change and the forces that steer our lives. Join Laura as she meets with priest and writer Marie-Elsa Bragg, publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, author, journalist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell and author Emma Unsworth. With each interview, we discover how the changing self is something to celebrate, and how we all have the capacity for great change and innovation. The episodes will be released weekly throughout October and November. The podcasts are presented by Laura Barton and produced by Geoff Bird. All views expressed in the podcast are the interviewees own and not necessarily those of TOAST. Laura Barton meets virtually with our second guest for this series on Flux & Flow, Berlin-based publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove. The founder of Dialogue Books, home to voices often excluded from the mainstream publishing world, discusses her move back to a city she loves, how her own life has encompassed many changes along with her route to becoming one of the most influential figures in modern publishing.

For our fourth podcast series, writer and broadcaster Laura Barton explores the theme of Flux & Flow, how we navigate change and the forces that steer our lives. Join Laura as she meets with priest and writer Marie-Elsa Bragg, publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, author, journalist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell and author Emma Unsworth. With each interview, we discover how the changing self is something to celebrate, and how we all have the capacity for great change and innovation. The episodes will be released weekly throughout October and November. The podcasts are presented by Laura Barton and produced by Geoff Bird. All views expressed in the podcast are the interviewees own and not necessarily those of TOAST. Marie Elsa Bragg Kicking off our Flux & Flow series, Laura Barton meets priest, writer and spiritual director, Marie-Elsa Bragg in a small park that stands between two churches in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Discussing Marie-Elsa’s early career as a dancer, the devastating loss of her mother, her quiet route to faith, and how 2020 is a real time for keeping vigil.

"the BBC sent a chauffeur-driven car along to pick me up from home in Sittingbourne, Kent, 50 miles from London"

If you don’t know what a Kanye West is, then Joan Bakewell will explain all, and Her Majesty the Queen tells us why she’s helping out the FBI. There’s also a special guest at Downton Abbey, and a new role for Daniel Day Lewis. Starring: Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Duncan Wisbey and Debra Stephenson. Written by Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, James Bugg, Simon Alcock, Athena Kugblenu, Cody Dahler, Gareth Ceredig, Jeffrey Aidoo, Alex Hardy, Paige Wilson, Sophie Dickson and Edward Tew. Producer Bill Dare A BBC Studios Production

Religious intolerance, the resurgence of fundamentalism, hate crimes, repressive laws, and mass shootings are pervasive in today’s world. Selina O’Grady asks how and why our societies came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are; whether tolerance can be expected to heal today’s festering wound between different religions or whether something deeper than tolerance is needed.Selina O’Grady takes the reader through the intertwined histories of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish faiths.In the Name of God is an original and thought-provoking history of monotheistic religions and their ever-shifting relationship with each other. Selina O'Grady was a documentary film producer at BBC Television for many years. She is the author of And Man Created God and has written for the Guardian, and the Literary Review in Britain. She lives in London. I was brought up in London by very religious parents. My father was a strict Irish Catholic; we had an altar in our house and prayed every night before the statue of the Virgin Mary. My mother was Jewish, but as a young woman had joined what would probably now be considered a cult, living in a kind of commune in New Jersey under the spiritual guidance of the Russian esotericist Ouspensky. Although she converted to Catholicism when she married my father, she remained wedded to Ouspensky's teachings. I lost my belief in God when I was a child but have always remained sympathetic to, and fascinated by, religious belief and the longing for the transcendent. I have co-edited two books, Great Spirits: The Fifty-Two Christians Who Most Influenced Their Millennium (a series of essays on men and women ranging from Bach to Martin Luther King), and A Deep but Dazzling Darkness, an anthology from Anglo-Saxon to modern times of the experience of belief and disbelief. I also worked in television and radio, including as a producer for BBC 1's moral documentary series Heart of the Matter, presented by Joan Bakewell, and a producer on Radio 4's history series Leviathan. My spur to beginning writing was reviewing works of history for the Tablet, the San Francisco Chronicle (I lived in that fabulous city for three years), and the LIterary Review. From writing those reviews, I learned what I think makes a good and enjoyable history book: it is the combination of the big causal picture - why something happens - fleshed out with the bits of gossipy, visceral detail that the reader will always enjoy and remember when all the dates have flown out of the window.

With a colourful and varied career, listen to Joan Bakewell as she tells Ruth Davidson of how she was one of the first crews to cross the Berlin Wall in 1989, her affair with Harold Pinter which is the basis for Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal and her work battling ageism and getting people to talk about death.

With a colourful and varied career, listen to Joan Bakewell as she tells Ruth Davidson of how she was one of the first crews to cross the Berlin Wall in 1989, her affair with Harold Pinter which is the basis for Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal and her work battling ageism and getting people to talk about death.

On Saturday 31st August, hundreds of people gathered in Camden to protest at the proposal that parliament be shut down for 5 weeks, essentially to inhibit elected MPs from stopping a No-Deal Brexit. Hear extracts of what some of the speakers said. ... Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (6:55 min / 6 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (1:05 min / 1 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:06 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:12 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:41 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:10 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:14 min / 3 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (0:55 min / 1 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:55 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (1:05 min / 1 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:10 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:14 min / 3 MB)

On Saturday 31st August, hundreds of people gathered in Camden to protest at the proposal that parliament be shut down for 5 weeks, essentially to inhibit elected MPs from stopping a No-Deal Brexit. Hear extracts of what some of the speakers said. ... Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (6:55 min / 6 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:55 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:06 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:12 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:41 min / 4 MB)

Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against Shutdown of Parliament for 5 weeks :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Voices from Russell Square :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (0:55 min / 1 MB)

On Saturday 31st August, hundreds of people gathered in Camden to protest at the proposal that parliament be shut down for 5 weeks, essentially to inhibit elected MPs from stopping a No-Deal Brexit. Hear extracts of what some of the speakers said. ... Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against shutdown of Parliament :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (12:06 min / 11 MB)

On Saturday 31st August, hundreds of people gathered in Camden to protest at the proposal that parliament be shut down for 5 weeks, essentially to inhibit elected MPs from stopping a No-Deal Brexit. Hear extracts of what some of the speakers said. ... Georgia Gould, Leader Camden Council introduced the speakers at the rally to #StopTheCoup #DefendOurDemocracy at Russell Square – part of a UK-wide series of demonstrations: Camden Community Radio compiled clips from most of the speakers as well as short podcasts of individual speakers. Like Sava, we weren’t there early enough to catch everybody but we did hear Sava Asif, Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion; Seb Dance, MEP Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor, Liz Wheatley – Branch Secretary, Camden Unison Branch; Labour Campaign for Free Movement Joan Bakewell and Keir Starmer MP Package: Marian Larragy Petition against shutdown of Parliament :: Demo for Free Movement of Migrants :: Sava Asif :: Lazzaro Pietragnoli EU Citizens’ Champion :: Liz Wheatley – Secretary, Camden Unison Branch :: Seb Dance, MEP :: Louisa Brewer – Lib Dem Councillor :: Labour Campaign for Free Movement :: Joan Bakewell :: Keir Starmer MP :: Speaker :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (12:06 min / 11 MB)

Pieter-Dirk Uys, a leading satirist in South Africa, has spent his career poking fun at politicians. In a new show, The Echo of a Noise, he looks back at his life. As audience members, how does our relationship with the arts change as we age and in what way is that represented by the industry? Journalist and presenter Joan Bakewell and former Chairman of the Arts Council Christopher Frayling discuss the different ways in which older people consume the arts and the issues that it raises.Gaël Faye grew up in Burundi, the son of a Rwandan mother and a French father, and witnessed the horrors of the Rwandan civil war and genocide. He has now reflected upon that in his debut novel, Small Country, told from the perspective of 10-year-old Gabriel who desperately tries to cling onto his childhood despite what's happening around him. Gaël tells John how his experiences have shaped his work as a writer and musician.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson.

In 1978 Harold Pinter sent Joan Bakewell a copy of his new play Betrayal. Upon reading it she discovered that it was based with vivid accuracy on an affair they'd had years earlier and which had remained a secret. Shocked and bewildered she wrote her own play in response. Keeping In Touch has been hidden away ever since, but is now being broadcast on Radio 4, reworked. Joan Bakewell talks to Kirsty about the play, Betrayal and her changing relationship with both.Yesterday Emma Rice, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, posted an open letter on the theatre's own website addressed to the future Artistic Director. The post is being advertised after Emma Rice announced her departure last October - a decision which was apparently sparked by her use of artificial lights and sound. The open letter is just the latest in an ongoing saga that's been evolving off-stage at the theatre so, with the Bard's birthday just days away, literary critic Matt Thorne helps us to untangle a drama that Shakespeare himself might have been proud of.David Pickard took up his role as Director of the BBC Proms last year. He joins Kirsty to announce highlights of this year's season, including the first Front Row commission, and to discuss the intricacies of putting on the world's largest classical music festival.New film The Zookeeper's Wife is a based on a true story of Antonina Żabińska and her husband Jan who ran the Warsaw Zoo and who during the Nazi occupation helped save hundreds of people and animals. The film stars Jessica Chastain and is directed by Niki Caro. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews.

Sarah's guest this week is the broadcaster, novelist and journalist Joan Bakewell

Daniel Kaluuya stars in Get Out, director Jordan Peele's racial satire about contemporary America. Already a hit at the US box office, the casting of a British actor in a film about US race relations has sparked debate about the number of roles for black actors. Film journalist Ashley Clark has the Front Row review. An experimental production at the National Theatre has no script and features a cast in their 70s and 80s. Director Phelim McDermott, actor Anna Calder-Marshall and Joan Bakewell discuss how issues facing older people can, and should, be shown on stage. Kirsty visits Compton Verney's exhibition Creating The Countryside, which examines how artists have represented the great outdoors, from Gainsborough to Grayson Perry. Also part of the new season is The Clearing, a vision of how we may have to live if sea levels rise and petrol pumps run dry. Artists Alex Hartley and Tom James explain. And Front Row continues to look at what the charts reveal about pop music today. Laura Snapes argues that streaming services are changing the music we hear.

Does what makes the heart beat faster really make the world go round? Oh yes. Welcome to a new history of lust presented by the American satirist Joe Queenan. From Helen and Paris of Troy to Bill and Monica via Rasputin, Edwina Currie and John Major, this is a tale of life as a bunga bunga bacchanal. With contributions from historian Suzannah Lipscomb, classicist Edith Hall, plus Agnes Poirier, Joan Bakewell (of course), Caitlin Moran and Richard Herring on Rasputin; a specially composed new poem on lust from Elvis McGonagall; and music from Prince, T Rex, Bessie Smith and Cole Porter. The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde.

Episode Four is the story of rebellion and dissent in the north - and the way northern dialect is beginning to be marginalised and even mocked. Melvyn Bragg begins at Clifford's Tower in York, site of a Norman fortress built to keep the north under control. It was also the site centuries later, where Robert Aske - one of the leaders of The Pilgrimage of Grace (a great Catholic Rebellion) was executed. It's in York that St Margaret Clitherow was tortured to death. Melvyn goes to Riveaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire and finds evidence that the monks were on the brink of producing high quality cast iron and even blast furnaces. If the Reformation hadn't happened could the Industrial Revolution have begun here hundreds of years earlier? Melvyn examines how the south is coming to view the north - and its dialect. There is an idea that northern kinds of English are less prestigious. An idea that persists. Melvyn discusses this with Joan Bakewell. The poet Simon Armitage celebrates the speech patterns of the medieval poetic masterpiece 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Melvyn meets Dame Judi Dench who remembers her time performing the York Mystery Plays. Contributors Jonnie Robinson, British Library Joan Bakewell Simon Armitage Judi Dench Toby Gordon Natalie McCaul, Yorkshire Museum Dr Sarah Bastow, University of Huddersfield Susan Harrison, English Heritage Prof Andy Wood, Durham University Producer: Faith Lawrence.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is calling on the BBC to give religion the same prominence as politics, sport or drama. In a speech at the Sandford St Martin awards for religious broadcasting, The Most Rev Justin Welby will suggest that the Corporation's charter include protection for religious programming. Also at the ceremony, Dame Joan Bakewell will receive a special award in recognition of a 'commitment to religious and ethical broadcasting'. She joins Steve Hewlett in the studio. Nigel Farage and David Cameron faced "tough" questions on the EU referendum from a live studio audience last night for the referendum special on ITV. It's the latest in a series of debates across networks which started last week with Sky News' interviews with David Cameron and Michael Gove. Steve Hewlett speaks to Sky's Head of Politics Esme Wren about how negotiations went and how much planning went into the interviews. A new daily newspaper described as the "North's national" is being launched. Called 24, the title will be published by Cumbria-based CN Group and will provide a "distinctly northern perspective" on big news stories. Steve Hewlett speaks to Editorial Director David Helliwell about his ambitions for the paper, and how they plan to make it work in a market suffering big declines. The free London newspaper City AM is going to allow commercial brands to directly upload content to the City AM website without any pre-moderation by its editorial team. Joining Steve to discuss why City AM have embarked on this new model, and how they hope to benefit from this venture, is Christian May, editor of City AM. Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

Journalist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell answers the question: "What Makes Us Human?"

Dame Joan Bakewell talks to Damian Barr about her memoir 'Stop The Clocks'. Recorded live in the Lancaster Ballroom at The Savoy Hotel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sacha Baron Cohen plays a football hooligan and Mark Strong his brother, a top spy, in the new action comedy film Grimsby. Quentin Cooper reviews.Shakespeare's Globe's outgoing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole looks back over his tenure and discusses his final production, The Tempest.After Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, Anthony Holden has now collected Poems That Make Grown Women Cry. In it, women from various walks of life select poems that move them to tears, and explain why. Holden discusses the similarities and differences between the two volumes, and is joined by Joan Bakewell and Elif Shafak who reveal their choices.Mick Herron discusses his new novel Real Tigers, a thriller which takes place behind the scenes at Britain's Security Service.Presenter Kirsty Lang Producer Jerome Weatherald.

Lemn Sissay meets broadcaster and writer Dame Joan Bakewell; micro sculptor Willard Wigan; choreographer Gary Clarke and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Willard Wigan MBE is a micro sculptor. He creates minute pieces of art, so small they are almost invisible to the naked eye and can only be viewed through a microscope. His materials range from spiders' webs to grains of sand. His latest exhibition, Homecoming, reflects his view of the Black Country where he grew up and features his latest work - a tiny sculpture of Noddy Holder. Willard Wigan Homecoming is at Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton. Dame Joan Bakewell CBE is a broadcaster and writer. In her memoir, Stop the Clocks, she muses on the life she has lived through, how the world has changed and considers the values she will leave behind. She sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer - Baroness Bakewell of Stockport. She is also president of Birkbeck College, University of London. Stop the Clocks - Thoughts on What I Leave Behind is published by Little, Brown. Gary Clarke is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Grimethorpe in the heart of the Yorkshire coalfields and his new show, Coal, is inspired by the mining industry and the miners' strike. Coal addresses the hard-hitting realities of life down the pits and features a soundscape of traditional brass band music mixed with thunderous machinery. Coal - the True story of an Industry and a Community's Fight for Survival premieres at the DanceXchange in Birmingham and then starts a UK tour. Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a violinist. Born in Moldova, her family emigrated to Austria after the fall of communism. At the age of 17 she entered the Vienna Academy of Music. She is performing with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Royal Festival Hall at an event called Changing Minds which addresses the impact of mental health on classical music and composition. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Fiona Gruber speaks to theatre critic and Harold Pinter biographer, Michael Billington, about Pinter, his writing and his affair with TV presenter Joan Bakewell on which his play, Betrayal is based.

The actor talks about the challenges and rewards of playing Jack Tanner in Man and Superman. Chaired by Joan Bakewell.

The actor talks about the challenges and rewards of playing Jack Tanner in Man and Superman. Chaired by Joan Bakewell.

We were joined at the Saatchi Gallery in July 2009 by Turner Prize-winning artists Grayson Perry and Antony Gormley; author, philosopher and television presenter Alain de Botton; design critic, author and columnist Stephen Bayley and founder of the charity Kids Company Camila Batmanghelidjh, as they debated the motion "Can art be taught to the Facebook Generation?" The debate was chaired by author, journalist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sexually explicit material has always challenged censors and traditional moralists. From the 1960s, liberal values on sex and sexual relationships became one of the markers of a civilised, modern society. Over the past decade, however, there’s a gnawing unease that sexually explicit material has gradually stepped down from the top shelf and into the mainstream. Whether it was Rihanna’s raunchy display on The X Factor, Jonathan Ross’ lewd chat shows or Katie Perry simulating oral sex in pop videos, pornographic imagery has become the wallpaper of twenty-first-century society. With the rise of the increasingly ubiquitous ‘celebrity sex tape’, fans of chart-friendly pop stars such as Tulisa Contostavlos are exposed to increasingly graphic and intimate depictions of their icons. And then there’s Fifty Shades of Grey. Traditional moralists have always found much to censor in modern society, but when former champions of sexual liberalism, such as Joan Bakewell, start bemoaning the onslaught of naked flesh into the living room, something appears to have changed. Indeed, it is fortysomething ex-punk journalists turned parents who have started to wonder aloud why thong-thrusting pop videos are being shown at lunchtime. But could it be argued that we’ve been here many times before? From Elvis Presley and David Bowie to Madonna and Prince, pop stars have sought to challenge and question society’s taboos around sex. Surely Rihanna and Perry are simply the latest practitioners of taboo busting exhibitionism? Or is it the case that sex and relationships have become devalued, with porn aesthetics the new low-grade currency? A civilised society should be open about sex, but are we in danger of forgetting that civilised values also means the separation of the public and private, the decent and the debased? Is the rush to smash sexual taboos a sign of healthy libertarianism or of self-loathing by a cultural elite unwilling and unable to promote higher culture? Are the sexual-taboo smashers really hammering elite traditionalists and conservatives or is it a radical way of sneering at ordinary people’s ‘small minded’ values? Neil Davenportwriter; head of sociology, JFS Sixth Form Centre; contributor, spikedDr Jan Macvarishresearch fellow, Centre for Health Services Studies; founding associate, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, University of Kent, CanterburyAnna Percyfeminist performance poet; member, Stirred Feminist Poetry collective; organiser and facilitator, live poetry events and writing workshops Chair: Suzy Dean freelance writer; blogger, Free Society

Baroness Joan Bakewell, Birkbeck’s new President, talks about the importance of part-time study and her excitement about joining Birkbeck in this 12-minute podcast. The distinguished journalist and Labour peer is injecting renewed energy into Birkbeck’s campaign to champion the vital benefits of part-time study for the economy, employers and employees when national figures show a sharp drop in part-time student numbers. Baroness Bakewell also shares her memories of the late Professor Eric Hobsbawm, Birkbeck’s former President and her supervisor at the University of Cambridge in the early 1950s. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-voices-podcast/birkbeck-voices-podcast-baroness-joan-bakewell-birkbeck2019s-new-president-speaks-up-for-part-time-students

Broadcaster and writer Dame Joan Bakewell chooses the 1963 film The Leopard, directed by Luchino Visconti. Plus archive interviews with Burt Lancaster, Francis Ford Coppola, Claudia Cardinale and Joan Bakewell herself.

With John Wilson. Lenny Henry returns to the stage after a succesful run playing Othello. He now stars in the Pulitzer prize-winning play Fences by American playwright August Wilson. Lenny Henry discusses the importance of the play and the challenge of memorising his lines in a role where he's rarely off the stage. The winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration is announced today. Previous winners include Raymond Briggs, Shirley Hughes, Lauren Child and Quentin Blake. John talks to this year's winner. The foghorn is a disappearing sound from the British coastline - increasingly made redundant by the advances of GPS technology. Now an ambitious project is using GPS technology in the service of a Foghorn Requiem. Composed by Orlando Gough, the requiem features three brass bands, a flotilla of vessels positioned offshore, and the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn itself. Composer Orlando Gough and artist Lise Autogena discuss a one-off musical performance that aims to fuse the sounds from land and sea. In tonight's Cultural Exchange, Joan Bakewell discusses her choice - Luchino Visconti's sumptuous 1963 film adaptation of di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard.

Start the Week Allan Little explores the legacy of George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language. Joan Bakewell, Tim Montgomerie, Chris Mullin and Phil Collins discuss Orwell's warning that evasive language, euphemism and insincerity dominate political writing, and assess the impact of today's political diaries, blogging and tweeting.Producer: Katy Hickman.

Whilst at school, a young Alan Johnson was given some money by a teacher and told to go and buy four copies of any book for the school library. He headed down the Kings Road in Chelsea, stopping only for a sly cigarette along the way. Having already read 'Animal Farm', he picked 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' and yearned for the life of lead character Gordon Comstock. In conversation with Matthew Parris, former Home Secretary Alan Johnson explains why Orwell was crucial to his education and political development. He's surprised to learn that Orwell is not on the National Curriculum, and insists that Orwell would have hated I.D. cards. They're joined by Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and Chair of the Orwell Prize. Orwell was in the news recently when the outgoing Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, turned down a proposal to erect a statue of George Orwell outside BBC Broadcasting House, reportedly telling Joan Bakewell that it was 'far too Left-wing an idea.' Producers: Beatrice Fenton and Toby Field. From 2010.

Richard Coles & John McCarthy with broadcaster Joan Bakewell; listener Kirsteen Steel who turned detective to recover her father's stolen submarine bell; Jeremy Marks who in the 1980s ran a course to help gay people suppress their sexuality; moon rock investigator Joe Gutheinz; Olympic cycling pace setter Peter Deary; JP Devlin talks to the last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; there's a poem from the Edinburgh Festival; and agony aunt and author Virginia Ironside shares her Inheritance Tracks. Producer: Dixi Stewart.

With John Wilson. Dame Judi Dench leads a cast of British stars, including Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith, in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a film which follows a group of pensioners attracted by the prospect of spending their golden years in India. Joan Bakewell gives her verdict. Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is about to open a new exhibition which brings together almost all his major works to date, including installations, videos, photographs, performance works and sound pieces. Some works also feature volunteers as participants. John talks to Jeremy and to three of the volunteers. On the eve of the 2012 Brit Awards, John speaks to nominees who have found inspiration in great literary figures, with Kate Bush and Laura Marling on James Joyce and Charlotte Bronte, Critics' Choice Winner Emeli Sande on Virginia Woolf, Guy Garvey from Elbow on Alan Bennett; and PJ Harvey on Harold Pinter. Plus producer Paul Epworth on working on the album which dominated 2011 - Adele's 21. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

Joan Bakewell celebrates the art of diary writing by public figures and private individuals whose accounts of everyday life help shape our view of the past. Producer: Sheila Cook.

Joan Bakewell contrasts our empathy for fictional characters on the stage and on screen with a reported growing lack of sympathy for real people in need. When the prevailing culture is one of self-regard and narcissism the quiet work of charities deserves all the more applause. Producer: Sheila Cook.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. Born in Stockport in 1933, it was in the 1960s that she first started to shape the cultural agenda, interviewing the likes of Kingsley Amis and Stockhausen for the radical BBC TV show Late Night Line-Up. It was also during the 1960s that she had an affair with Harold Pinter, a relationship which inspired his play Betrayal. Looking back on it now from the age of 76, she says, "We always said we had a damn good time". Now appointed as the Voice of Older People by Gordon Brown, her passion for debate and social change is as strong as ever. She says she has always regarded the world to be improved and is not afraid of being called a wishy-washy liberal. "It's a good thing to do," she says, "you feel you can be part of change." [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: String Quintet in C Major by Franz Schubert Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: An abundance of paper and pencils.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. Born in Stockport in 1933, it was in the 1960s that she first started to shape the cultural agenda, interviewing the likes of Kingsley Amis and Stockhausen for the radical BBC TV show Late Night Line-Up. It was also during the 1960s that she had an affair with Harold Pinter, a relationship which inspired his play Betrayal. Looking back on it now from the age of 76, she says, "We always said we had a damn good time".Now appointed as the Voice of Older People by Gordon Brown, her passion for debate and social change is as strong as ever. She says she has always regarded the world to be improved and is not afraid of being called a wishy-washy liberal. "It's a good thing to do," she says, "you feel you can be part of change."[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: String Quintet in C Major by Franz Schubert Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: An abundance of paper and pencils.

John Crace whizzes through a wartime romance

Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Joan Bakewell. Favourite track: Mefistofele (Prologue) by Nicola Moscona & Robert Shaw Book: The collected works by James Joyce Luxury: Yellow Lamborghini