Joan Bakewell

Now in her 80s, Joan Bakewell looks back at the world in which she grew up and the people, ideas and events that shaped her. She ranges from the minutiae of life such as how to make a bed properly (with hospital corners!), to the bigger lessons of politics, of lovers, of betrayal. She talks of the present, of her family, of friends and literature. She talks, too, of what she will leave behind.