The View from Here
Published on 1. April 2009
256 pages
978-1-84887-260-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. A household name and a popular radio and TV broadcaster, Bakewell is the ideal ambassador for challenging what being 70 can mean for women today. All of life, including the taboos of old age, are here - work, family, love, sex, body and death - written about with humour, warmth, and Bakewell's characteristic verve and intelligence.
The View from Here is Bakewell's discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond. A household name and a popular radio and TV broadcaster, Bakewell is the ideal ambassador for challenging what being 70 can mean for women today. All of life, including the taboos of old age, are here - work, family, love, sex, body and death - written about with humour, warmth, and Bakewell's characteristic verve and intelligence.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84887-260-8 (9781848872608)
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Joan Bakewell
The View from Here
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05/2007
Atlantic Books
€31.13
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Joan Bakewell
The View from Here
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09/2006
Atlantic Books
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Person
Joan Bakewell is a celebrated radio and television broadcaster. She made her television debut during the Cuban missile crisis and went on to make her name in programmes such as BBC TV's Late Night Line, Newsnight and Heart of the Matter. She was born in Stockport in 1933 and now lives in north London. She has two children and six grandchildren. Joan published her autobiography, The Centre of the Bed, in 2003. Belief, which Joan edited, was published in 2005 (Duckworth) to accompany the Radio 4 series of the same name. Joan lives in London.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE Today
- ONE A Place Called 'Old'
- TWO Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
- THREE In the World's Eyes
- FOUR Rites of Passage
- PART TWO Yesterday
- FIVE Then and Now
- SIX Englishness
- SEVEN Looking Back
- PART THREE Tomorrow
- EIGHT Today's World
- NINE Attitudes
- TEN The Pace of Change
- ELEVEN Things Begin to Go Wrong
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
