Joan Bakewell I met Harold Pinter in Paris and was back for children's supper The Irish News


Passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell Daily Mail Online

Harold Pinter, Britain's leading playwright, had a seven-year affair with Joan Bakewell, the television presenter, during his tempestuous marriage to the actress Vivien Merchant.


Joan Bakewell doesn't regret Harold Pinter affair 'I'm beyond caring what people think' TV

In 1978 Harold Pinter sent Joan Bakewell a copy of his new play Betrayal. Upon reading it she discovered that it was based on an affair they'd had years earlier and which had remained a secret.


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Inside are eight flimsy pages of airline paper headed: "Flying with BOAC". The letter is from Harold Pinter. It is the first of many such in a relationship that was to last some eight years.


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Joan Bakewell on her relationship with Harold Pinter. Joan Bakewell talks to Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs about her affair and long friendship with playwright Harold Pinter. 19 June 2013. 3.


Harold Pinter’s best friend reveals playwright’s painful secrets Harold Pinter The Guardian

April 18, 2017 at 8:06AM BST. Joan Bakewell has told how she once jetted to Paris to spend the day with playwright Harold Pinter during their affair before returning to England to cook dinner for.


Passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell Daily Mail Online

Vanessa Thorpe Sat 14 Oct 2017 19.04 EDT F or 60 years actor Henry Woolf was the intimate friend of Harold Pinter, the Nobel laureate widely judged the greatest theatrical voice Britain has.


Joan Bakewell responds to Pinter's Betrayal with her take on their affair Theatre The Guardian

Harold Pinter and Lady Antonia Fraser in London, 1981. Photograph: Alan Davidson/REX/Shutterstock The Observer Harold Pinter Why Harold Pinter's widow feels his screenplays deserve.


Joan Bakewell on her affair with Harold Pinter, and how it inspired her new radio drama

Interview Joan Bakewell on love, fun and ambition at 90: 'I've been pleased not to be married these last 20 years' Zoe Williams Still nowhere near ready to retire, the arts presenter talks.


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Harold Pinter and Joan Bakewell in 1969 Credit: BBC At some point in the late Seventies, Harold Pinter sent his close friends the manuscript of his latest play, Betrayal, about a clandestine.


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Hannah Furness, Arts Correspondent 25 March 2017 • 7:00am. Dame Joan Bakewell will air her own play about her affair with Harold Pinter. At the time, it caused quite the scandal: the BBC.


How Joan Bakewell uses her Harold Pinter affair to plug a new book Daily Mail Online

When Joan Bakewell embarked on an eight-year affair with the playwright Harold Pinter in the 1960s, she never suspected he would make a play out of it. But then he wrote Betrayal and sent.


Joan Bakewell I met Harold Pinter in Paris and was back for children's supper The Irish News

Monday February 05 2018, 12.01am, The Times. The intimate expressions of desire written by Harold Pinter to Joan Bakewell during their seven-year affair have been made public after she handed over.


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One was Pinter's Betrayal. The other was Joan Bakewell's Keeping in Touch, written in response to Pinter's play which used details of the couple's seven-year affair. Bakewell's play was.


Joan Bakewell doesn't regret Harold Pinter affair 'I'm beyond caring what people think' TV

Joan on the present: "I know my limits, my expectations. I know where I am and who I am. It has taken a long time." Her principals: Almost every newspaper in the country asked her to write about.


How Joan Bakewell uses her Harold Pinter affair to plug a new book Daily Mail Online

The secret relationship between Harold Pinter and Joan Bakewell during the 1960s inspired his play Betrayal. Their affair was only revealed to the public a quarter of a century after they parted.


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Joan Bakewell, right, interviewing playwright Harold Pinter, left, in 1968, the year their affair ended View gallery Pinter, left, hid the affair with Bakewell from his then wife Vivien.