19:00 Wednesday 12th Oct, Midlife Marina Benjamin (The Middlepause) and Miranda Sawyer (Out of Time) reflect on midlife and ageing in a world preoccupied by ideas of youth, productivity and self-improvement. They discuss how our tastes, and our bodies, change as we...

18:40 Tuesday 25th October | Lessons for your Fifties The way we think about ageing is in flux. We are working harder and living longer, while facing a barrage of pressure from employers and the media to stay forever young in mind and body. As a culture we’ve lost...

Diana Athill’s new book Alive, Alive Oh! muses on what it’s like to be approaching 100, mingling vivid memories of a remarkable past with candid, wise and often funny reflections on what it’s like to be very old. She’ll be in conversation with Marina...

Wed July 6th: MIDDLEPAUSE Marina Benjamin Cutting through society’s clamorous demands to work longer and stay young, MIDDLEPAUSE: ON TURNING 50 delivers a clear-eyed account of midlife’s challenges. Marina Benjamin weighs the losses, joys and opportunities...

LISTEN HERE This week the Fawcett Society celebrates its 150th anniversary. It also marks the point when Millicent Fawcett and other campaigners handed in the first petition for women’s suffrage to Parliament. On Tuesday we looked at the impact of a century and...

19:00 30 JUN GETTING OLDER AND GETTING BETTER We live in a world preoccupied by ideas of youth, productivity and self-improvement. Cutting through society’s clamorous exhortations to look younger and live longer, Marina Benjamin gives us a clear-eyed and elegant...