Career
1954 - 1956 |
Studio Manager with BBC Radio |
| 1957 - 1959 | Advertising Copywriter with McCann Erickson, Hobson Bates
and later David Williams Ltd |
| 1962 | First television broadcast as contributor to BBC TV's Table Talk |
| Early 1960s | 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 |
| 1965 - 1972 | 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 | 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 |
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 | Columnist for The Sunday Times |
| 2003 - 2011 | Columnist for The Guardian |
| 2003 - 2008 | Columnist for The Independent |
| 2008 - 2010 | Columnist for The Times |
| 2011 - | Columnist for The Daily Telegraph
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BBC Television
1981 - 1987 |
BBC Television's Arts Correspondent |
| 1987 - 2000 | BBC 1's Heart of the Matter |
| 2000 | 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 |
| 2001 | Taboo: writer and presenter of three-part Series for BBC 2 |
| 2011 - | Occasional Panorama presenter for BBC 1
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BBC Radio
1999 - 2000 |
Presenter of BBC Radio 3's Artist of the Week |
| 1999 - 2001 | Chair of BBC Radio 3's The Brains Trust |
| 2001 - 2014 | Presenter of BBC Radio 3's Belief series. |
| 2009 - 2016 | Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Inside the Ethics Committee
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| 2016 - 2019 | Presenter of BBC Radio 4's We Need to Talk About Death
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Sky Arts
2013 - 2022 |
Annual Portrait Artist of the Year
Annual Landscape Artist of the Year |
Publications
1970s |
Numerous short stories: Womens' Magazines, Punch etc |
| 1970 | The New Priesthood: British Television Today
(with Professor Nicholas Garnham)
A Fine and Private Place (with John Drummond) |
| 1977 | The Complete Traveller |
| 1996 | The Heart of the Matter: A Memoir |
| 2003 | The Centre of the Bed (autobiography) |
| 2005 | Belief |
| 2006 | The View from Here: Life at Seventy |
| 2009 | All the Nice Girls (novel) |
| 2011 | She's Leaving Home (novel) |
| 2016 | Stop the Clocks |
| 2022 | The Tick of Two Clocks
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Joan has served on:
1984 - 1999 |
The Council of the Aldeburgh Festival |
| 1994 - 2003 | The Council of the Friends of the Tate Gallery |
| 1998 - 2003 | Board of the Royal National Theatre |
| 1994 - 2002 | Governor of the BFI |
| 2000 - 2002 | Chair of the BFI |
| 2005 - 2009 | Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts |
| 2007 - 2012 | 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 | Communications Committee of the House of Lords |
| 2016 - 2018 | The Speaker's Arts Advisory Panel |
| 2017 | Select Committee on A.I. |
| 2019 | Select Committee on the Regeneration of the Seaside |
| 2021 | Select Committee on the Built Environment |
| 2017 - | 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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