Career
1954 - 1956
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Studio Manager with BBC Radio
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1957 - 1959
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Advertising Copywriter with McCann Erickson, Hobson Bates and later David
Williams Ltd
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1962
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First television broadcast as contributor to BBC TV's
Table Talk
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Early 1960s
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Presenter ATV's Sunday Break (ITV)
Home at 4.30 for Southern Television (ITV)
The Second Sex for BBC TV
Meeting Point for BBC TV
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1965 - 1972
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Late Night Line Up: one of four presenter-interviewers for BBC 2's
nightly
programme
Also Celebrity Interviews at the National Film Theatre: Bette Davis,
Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster
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1970's
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For BBC TV:
Where Is Your God?
Who Cares?
The Affirmative Way
Holiday Programmes
1974 - 1978
For Granada TV:
Four Series of Reports Action.
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Journalism
1970's
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Columnist for The Manchester Evening News.
Television critic for Punch.
Television reviewer for The Times.
Profile writer for The Illustrated London News.
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1987 - 1990
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Columnist for The Sunday Times
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2003 - 2011
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Columnist for The Guardian
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2003 - 2008
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Columnist for The Independent
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2008 - 2010
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Columnist for The Times
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2011 -
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Columnist for The Daily Telegraph
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BBC Television
1981 - 1987
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BBC Television's Arts Correspondent
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1987 - 2000
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BBC 1's Heart of the Matter
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2000
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Contributions to One Foot in the Past, Correspondent and other on-going
series
My Generation: writer and presenter of three-part Series for BBC 2
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2001
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Taboo: writer and presenter of three-part Series for BBC 2
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2011 -
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Occasional Panorama presenter for BBC 1
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BBC Radio
1999 - 2000
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Presenter of BBC Radio 3's Artist of the Week
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1999 - 2001
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Chair of BBC Radio 3's The Brains Trust
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2001 - 2014
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Presenter of BBC Radio 3's Belief series.
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2009 - 2016
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Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Inside the Ethics
Committee
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2016 - 2019
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Presenter of BBC Radio 4's We Need to
Talk About Death
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Sky Arts
2013 - 2022
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Annual Portrait Artist of the Year
Annual Landscape Artist of the Year
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Publications
1970s
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Numerous short stories: Womens' Magazines, Punch etc
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1970
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The New Priesthood: British Television
Today
(with Professor Nicholas Garnham)
A Fine and Private Place (with John Drummond)
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1977
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The Complete Traveller
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1996
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The Heart of the Matter: A Memoir
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2003
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The Centre of the Bed (autobiography)
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2005
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Belief
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2006
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The View from Here: Life at Seventy
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2009
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All the Nice Girls (novel)
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2011
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She's Leaving Home (novel)
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2016
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Stop the Clocks
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2022
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The Tick of Two Clocks
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Joan has served on:
1984 - 1999
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The Council of the Aldeburgh Festival
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1994 - 2003
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The Council of the Friends of the Tate Gallery
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1998 - 2003
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Board of the Royal National Theatre
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1994 - 2002
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Governor of the BFI
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2000 - 2002
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Chair of the BFI
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2005 - 2009
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Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts
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2007 - 2012
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Chair of the theatre company, Shared Experience.
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Patron
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The Piers Association
The Almshouse Association
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As a Labour Peer
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2013 - 2015
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Communications Committee of the House of Lords
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2016 - 2018
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The Speaker's Arts Advisory Panel
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2017
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Select Committee on A.I.
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2019
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Select Committee on the Regeneration of the Seaside
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2021
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Select Committee on the Built Environment
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2017 -
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Joint Chair of the Humanists APPG
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Honorary Degrees
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Stirling University
Queen Margaret's University, Edinburgh
Royal Holloway, London
Chester University
University of the Arts
Staffordshire University
Lancaster University
Newcastle University
The Open University
Essex University
Manchester Metropolitan University
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