Ageing
Discovery. Why do we get middle-aged spread? Audio, 27 minutes
Plus, what’s the strongest substance in the world?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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A Point of View. Act Your Age. Audio, 10 minutes
Will Self explains why he finds it hard to always act his age.
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The Inevitable. Audio, 28 minutes
Writer Patrick McGuinness asks what really is the inevitable. And must we accept it?
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The Essay. The Earl Grey Whistle Test, The Earl Grey Whistle Test: Hope I Die Before I Get Old. Audio, 15 minutes
David Hepworth reflects on what keeps rock stars playing into old age.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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FutureProofing. Ageing. Audio, 43 minutes
How will our ideas about ageing change as life expectancy rises to 100 and beyond?
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The Essay. Desperately Seeking Eternity, Desperately Seeking Eternity: Anders Sandberg. Audio, 15 minutes
Anders Sandberg argues that ageing and mortality may be transformed by future technology.
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Glad to Be Grey. Audio, 30 minutes
Grey-haired Professor Mary Beard investigates why fewer people are now "Glad to be Grey".
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Thinking Allowed. Refusing adulthood, How young people feel about being poor. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor asks if and why some people refuse to grow up.
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The Essay. Other People (Hell Is...) My Generation. Audio, 15 minutes
AL Kennedy contemplates the pitfalls of being old, young or something in between.
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Rave: The Beat Goes On. Audio, 30 minutes
Jolyon Jenkins reports on "Spiral Tribe", the 90s free party sound system, still raving.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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Frontiers. Ageing and the brain. Audio, 28 minutes
Do our mental powers really decline in old age?
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Ramblings. Series 26, Hopetoun with the Monday Walkers. Audio, 23 minutes
Clare visits the Hopetoun Estate, just west of Edinburgh, to rejoin the Monday Walkers.
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A History of Britain in Numbers. Old Age. Audio, 15 minutes
Andrew reveals the changing shape of our lives by compressing a whole life into 20 seconds
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The Why Factor. Ageing. Audio, 18 minutes
Why are attitudes towards older people often so negative?
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All in the Mind. Ageless Psychiatry; From DNA to the Brain; Recipe of Life. Audio, 28 minutes
Do older people need specialist mental health services? Claudia Hammond investigates.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Why Factor. Retirement. Audio, 18 minutes
Why do we retire?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Frontiers. Why do women live longer than men? Audio, 28 minutes
Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Frontiers. Ageing and Telomeres. Audio, 30 minutes
Is there a test for how long you will live? Controversies in cutting edge ageing research.
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Costing the Earth. The Environmental Cost of Ageing. Audio, 30 minutes
Tom Heap examines the carbon footprint of older people.
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- Available for over a year
