male-dominated media industry. It also details the extramarital affair Bakewell had with playwright Harold Pinter (between 1962 and 1969), while she was married to Michael Bakewell (the marriage lasted from 1955 to 1972) and Pinter was married to the actress Vivien Merchant. The affair was the basis for Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal, adapted in 1983 as a film. In 2017, Keeping in Touch, a play first written by Bakewell in 1978 in response to Betrayal, premiered on BBC Radio 4. In 1975, she married Jack Emery, a British director, writer and producer for stage, TV and radio, who was 12 years her junior. The couple divorced in 2001. Bakewell said, "The age difference did matter, but other things mattered more." In January 2023, Bakewell announced that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer. Legacy The Joan Bakewell Archive is housed at the British Library. The papers can be accessed through the British Library catalogue. References External links "Lost voices", John Mullan, The Guardian, 18 June 1999. Listen to an audio slideshow interview with Joan Bakewell talking about her first novel All the Nice Girls on The Interview Online. Joan Bakewell at Knight Ayton Management Joan Bakewell Official Website 1933 births Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC television presenters English atheists English humanists English critics English reporters and correspondents English people of Welsh descent BAFTA fellows Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire English journalists English television presenters British women television presenters Labour Party (UK) life peers Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II Living people People from Stockport People educated at Stockport High School for Girls People associated with Birkbeck, University of London British women television journalists British women radio presenters Honorary Fellows of the British Academy Honorary Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge People associated with the University of Chester