Podcasts

Fashion tips for older people

October 1, 2019

Tongue-in-cheek fashion tips for older people. Your choice of style may change in unexpected ways as you get older. The conversation and the poem are about your choice of fashion in old age.

Voices in your head

September 24, 2019

I’m thinking about the indelible messages we get from our parents, and how they influence us even in old age. What if the voices in your head are mean?

Getting old is not like getting pregnant

September 17, 2019

At 75 I had a silly thought: getting old is a bit like getting pregnant. Both bring drastic changes to your physical body and your life is changed forever.

You will grow old—and it’s weird

September 10, 2019

Why this podcast? Because growing old is weird. We can’t imagine ourselves being older, let alone very old. We still feel young, so growing older takes us by surprise.

Trailer for How To Be Old | A podcast with poems

September 10, 2019

Have you had a wake-up birthday, when you realise with a shock that you are no longer young? Do you even know how to be old? I’m nearly 80 and I’m learning. (It’s weird.)