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


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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.


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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.


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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.


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

Joan Bakewell on her relationship with Harold Pinter. Joan Bakewell talks to Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs about her affair and long friendship with playwright Harold Pinter. 19 June 2013. 3.


Joan Bakewell I met Harold Pinter in Paris and was back in time to cook the children’s supper

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 for children's supper The Irish News

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.


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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.


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Hannah Furness, Arts Correspondent 25 March 2017 • 7:00am. Dame Joan Bakewell will air her own play about her affair with Harold Pinter. At the time, it caused quite the scandal: the BBC.


Passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell Daily Mail Online

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.


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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.


Passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell 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.


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

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.


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

Joan on the present: "I know my limits, my expectations. I know where I am and who I am. It has taken a long time." Her principals: Almost every newspaper in the country asked her to write about.


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

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.


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

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.

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