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


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

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 and her husband Jack Emery. 15th June 1977. News Photo Getty Images

What does she mean? 'Well,' she cries. 'You asked me why I don't like talking about my affair with the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter.' Well, why don't you? 'I just don't want to.


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Dame Joan Bakewell had eight-year affair with playwright Harold Pinter In new book 82-year-old reveals a shocking denouement to the romance Pair met in the 1960s at a party before they.


ハロルド・ピンターとの関係についてのジョーン・ベイクウェルそして彼女がテレサ・メイとビヨンセについてどう思うかラジオ・タイムズ 無線

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.


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

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.


Seen the passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell Travel Guide vs Booking YouTube

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.


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

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

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 in time to cook the children’s supper

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.


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

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.


A lifetime achievement award for Joan Bakewell — That’s Not My Age

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.


BBC Radio 4 Harold Pinter as Joseph Garcin and Jane Arden as Inez in Satre's 'In Camera

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.


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

At a London party in 1960, playwright Harold Pinter fell head over heels for a young BBC reporter named Joan Bakewell. There was only one problem—they were both married to other people. As.


The broadcaster and writer Joan Bakewell . News Photo Getty Images

Joan Bakewell and Harold Pinter in 1995 She said Pinter "would not be very pleased" about her account in the drama Keeping In Touch, but has decided it is time her side is told.


Passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell 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.


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

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.