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Title: Stop the Clocks
Subtitle: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind
Author: Joan Bakewell
Narrator: Helen Bourne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-29-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, a copywriter, a studio manager, a broadcaster, a journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio plays, two novels and an autobiography - The Centre of The Bed. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting.
Though it may look as though she is now part of the establishment - a Dame, President of Birkbeck College, a Member of the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport - she's anything but and remains outspoken and courageous. In Stop the Clocks, she muses on all she has lived through and how the world has changed and considers the things and values she will be leaving behind.
Stop the Clocks is a audiobook of musings, a look back at what she was given by her family in the times in which she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life such as the knowledge of how to darn and 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 - and talks, too, of what she will leave behind. This is a thoughtful, moving and spirited book as only could be expected from this extraordinary woman.
Members Reviews:
Stop the clocks
As usual, Joan Bakewell writes in a delightful way and her life history through her own eyes is a pleasure to read. Her views are important and sometimes controversial which makes for interesting reading
Stop the dandelion clocks.
This is not a memoir so much as a trip down memorabilia lane (or âreviewing my timesâ as Bakewell calls it). Thereâs a lot of stuff about her, erm, stuff - but one discovers little about her life other than how things have changed. Hospital corner bed-making compared to duvets. Old gramophone records compared to ear buds. Six oâclock tea compared to nouvelle cuisine. And so it goes on. Weightier matters, when we get to them, are discussed perfunctorily.
Iâm not quite sure of this bookâs intended audience; certainly not the young who wonât be remotely interested. And as far as oldies are concerned, itâs all very ho-hum without the ha ha. Not that these sorts of books have to be funny but Bakewell doesnât have anything startlingly original to say either. For me, the recognition factor alone was simply not enough to engage. As for the authorâs praise of dandelions, there I cannot agree with her at all. They are the nastiest of little weeds; so hard to pull out that they have become epidemic. No thank you, Joan.
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Title: Stop the Clocks
Subtitle: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind
Author: Joan Bakewell
Narrator: Helen Bourne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-29-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, a copywriter, a studio manager, a broadcaster, a journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio plays, two novels and an autobiography - The Centre of The Bed. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting.
Though it may look as though she is now part of the establishment - a Dame, President of Birkbeck College, a Member of the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport - she's anything but and remains outspoken and courageous. In Stop the Clocks, she muses on all she has lived through and how the world has changed and considers the things and values she will be leaving behind.
Stop the Clocks is a audiobook of musings, a look back at what she was given by her family in the times in which she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life such as the knowledge of how to darn and 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 - and talks, too, of what she will leave behind. This is a thoughtful, moving and spirited book as only could be expected from this extraordinary woman.
Members Reviews:
Stop the clocks
As usual, Joan Bakewell writes in a delightful way and her life history through her own eyes is a pleasure to read. Her views are important and sometimes controversial which makes for interesting reading
Stop the dandelion clocks.
This is not a memoir so much as a trip down memorabilia lane (or âreviewing my timesâ as Bakewell calls it). Thereâs a lot of stuff about her, erm, stuff - but one discovers little about her life other than how things have changed. Hospital corner bed-making compared to duvets. Old gramophone records compared to ear buds. Six oâclock tea compared to nouvelle cuisine. And so it goes on. Weightier matters, when we get to them, are discussed perfunctorily.
Iâm not quite sure of this bookâs intended audience; certainly not the young who wonât be remotely interested. And as far as oldies are concerned, itâs all very ho-hum without the ha ha. Not that these sorts of books have to be funny but Bakewell doesnât have anything startlingly original to say either. For me, the recognition factor alone was simply not enough to engage. As for the authorâs praise of dandelions, there I cannot agree with her at all. They are the nastiest of little weeds; so hard to pull out that they have become epidemic. No thank you, Joan.