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


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

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.


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

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.


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

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 harold pinter hires stock photography and images Alamy

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.


Passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell Daily Mail Online

April 18, 2017 at 8:06AM BST. Joan Bakewell has told how she once jetted to Paris to spend the day with playwright Harold Pinter during their affair before returning to England to cook dinner for.


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

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.


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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.


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

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.


The broadcaster and writer Joan Bakewell . 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.


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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.


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

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 responds to Pinter's Betrayal with her take on their affair Theatre 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.


Passionate letters Harold Pinter sent to Joan Bakewell 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.


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.


NPG x138809; Joan Bakewell Portrait National Portrait Gallery

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.