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Joan Bakewell has led a mixed, sometimes breathless life: she has been a educator, a copywriter, a studio room manager, a broadcaster, a journalist, the government's Tone of THE ELDERLY and seat of the theater company Shared Experience. She's written four radio has, two novels and an autobiography - The Centre on the Bed. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting. Though it could look as if she is now area of the establishment - a Dame, Leader of Birkbeck College, a Member of the home of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport - she's not and remains outspoken and courageous. In Stop the Clocks, she muses on all she has lived through and the way the world has changed and considers the items and values she will be abandoning. Stop the Clocks is a audiobook of musings, a peek back again at what she was presented with by her family in the times in which she was raised - which range from the minutiae of life including the understanding of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with clinic corners to the larger lessons of politics, of fans, of betrayal. She discussions of the present, of her family, of friends and books - and discussions, too, of what she will leave behind. This is a thoughtful, moving and spirited booklet as only could be likely from this astonishing woman.

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