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'I was Pinter's OTHER woman': Joan Bakewell describes how she got there before Lady Antonia Fraser

Joan Bakewell From Daily Mail

Published 16 January 2010

This week, in our serialisation of Lady Antonia Fraser's memoirs about her life with playwright Harold Pinter, she recalled Pinter's earlier affair with the then married TV presenter Joan Bakewell - and Bakewell's horror at discovering he had written a play, Betrayal, about their seven-year relationship. In this extract from her autobiography, Joan, 76, gives her own side of this fascinating story of seduction and serial adultery. . . The dark had already closed in…