Joan Bakewell - 1968

English journalist and television presenter Joan Bakewell dressed as an opera singer in 1968.

Duffy photographed a series of prominent figures from the era, including Jeremy Thorpe, Leo Abse, Kingsley Amis, Henry Cooper, Fanny Cradock, Denis Healey, Bruce Lacey, and Cliff Michelmore. Flora Robson, Harry Secombe, and George Woodcock for an Observer piece on Childhood Ambitions.

Baroness Joan Bakewell DBE, HonFBA, FRSA, Born 16th April 1933 in Stockport, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright and has been awarded Humanist of the Year for services to humanism. For this feature in the Observer published on the 9th of June 1968, she confessed to always wanting to be an opera singer, although she admitted to being tone-deaf!