Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, 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. 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...

David Bret describes Joan Crawford's rise from a Kansas City laundry to collecting an Oscar for her role in 'Mildred Pierce'. He discusses her love affairs, marriages and her turbulent relationship with her children and her mother.