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When I'm 65 on You and Yours
Ben Toone
Assistant Content Producer
Editor's note: As part of the new BBC season, When I'm 65, Radio 4's You and Yours has been focussing on covering some of the issues around ageing in the UK today. Here, Ben Toone from the show picks out some highlights. PM The season certainly opened my eyes to the issues affect...
When I'm 65: BBC's Ageing Season
Ben Toone
Assistant Content Producer
If you're over 65, is it how you imagined? If you're under 65, how much do you think about being old? Day to day I don't, but since working on the You and Yours Ageing Season called 'When I'm 65' I have realised that I'm actually rather apprehensive about being elderly. And my worst fears? Per...
More from the You & Yours archive
Clare Walker
Editor's note: more quite haunting glimpses of our former selves from the You & Yours archive. We've now published all of the five episodes of the programme from the 1970s found in the archive. If you have a recording of an episode of You & Yours from that decade, please leave a comment to let u...
A year of anniversaries on Radio 4
David Hendy
So You and Yours is forty. Congratulations. The programme launched in October 1970 to give Radio 4 listeners advice five lunchtimes a week on 'everyday affairs from savings to sex, from holidays to health'. It swallowed-up older programmes such as Can I Help You, Listening Post, and You and Your...
Opening up the You & Yours Archive
Clare Walker
Editor's note. Clare Walker's post about the You & Yours archive starts with a complete episode of the programme from 1971 which you can embed on your own web site. Click 'embed.' - SB. Last month I took the train to Reading, hopped on the bus to Caversham and in a white bungalow in the leafy s...
Got a question for Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell?
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Paul Scoins, who works on You & Yours, emailed me: "I wondered if this might be worth flagging up... We've got Tessa Jowell on today to take calls on people's views on the 2012 Olympic legacy." The programme looks like this: First half: Are you still as enthusiastic about the Games as you w...
Peter White's week
Peter White
Chief Executive, Switchover Help Scheme
One of my delights over the past few years has been following the so-called 'children of the Olympic bid'. If you've missed it let me fill you in. These are the youngsters who back in 2005 played a key but little known role in snatching the games for London from under the Parisian nose. Aged be...
