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S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How Did You Get to Cambridge?

When you got to Cambridge, was it a struggle to fit in? Because that idea of having come from Stockport and being aware of your social standing in life. And then getting to Cambridge, which is this incredibly elite institution, what was that like? Well, it was exactly as you say. It was quite hard to fit in. I still had a Stockport accent, which I struggled to dispose of. What was later pointed out to me was a sort of shameless snobbery. But when I took up the acting at Cambridge and joined several of the acting fraternity,. Then it didn't matter because I could act like they could act. We could both act and reacted together. That

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