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Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
This extract muses on courting and the expectations on young women in her youth
Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
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