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Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
This extract muses on courting and the expectations on young women in her youth
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    Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
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    'The outrageous gamble of having a child'
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    Why Donald Trump wouldn’t work as a fictional character
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