The Latest Breaking News from Joan Bakewell

I’m lucky. I have enjoyed good health and lived to see many societal dreams realised. That privilege should be available to all, says broadcaster and writer Joan Bakewell

Two women, decades apart, have separately spoken out about the damaging impact of being portrayed as a sex symbol. Meanwhile, body-horror movie ‘The Substance’ shocks audiences with its commentary on the relentless pressure to be physically perfect. Helen Coffey asks why attitudes never seem to change when it comes to…

Other lives: Radio and television broadcaster, co-founder of Classic FM, and art historian

Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard

She blamed ‘carelessness and the mistakes of old age’

So the Coronation invites have gone out — and it turns out that I’m NRI’ed (Not Royally Invited).

The Labour peer first revealed she had been diagnosed in January and underwent surgery followed by chemotheraphy

Veteran broadcaster and journalist Dame Joan Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is currently 12 chemotherapy sessions into ongoing treatment following an operation to remove colon cancer

In trying to emasculate the judiciary and by allying himself with the far right, the prime minister has alienated the people