Joan Bakewell
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Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author a
Bakewell in 2018
Birkbeck College, University of London
Thinking man's crumpet
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In British English, the thinking man's crumpet or thinking woman's crumpet is a humorous term for a person who is popular with the opposite sex because of their intelligence and their physical attract
Joan Bakewell
…The Second Sex. She first became known as one of the presenters of the BBC2 programme Late Night Line-Up (1965–72 and 2008). Frank Muir dubbed her "the thinking man's crumpet" during this period and the moniker stuck; Bakewell herself was not insulted by the epithet. In 1968, she took the role of narrator of the BBC TV…
Benedict Cumberbatch 2011
Helen Mirren 2014