
How to Live Beyond 100
Documentary looking at what it is really like to live to 100 and beyond, and speaking to centenarians who explain what it means to have watched the world change around them.
There are over 12,000 100-year-olds in the country, and over the next twenty-five years that number is expected to rise to almost 90,000. A quarter of all children born today are expected to live beyond one hundred. But what is it like to live one hundred years?
How to Live Beyond 100 meets centenarians across the country who explain what it means to have watched the world change around them; how their own attitudes, thoughts and feelings have changed through the years; and what it has been like to grow older than old.
An uplifting look at what it is really like to live to 100 and beyond.
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When I’m 65 Season

It’s an inescapable fact, everyone grows old. The over 65s are the fastest growing age group in Britain and by 2030 it’s estimated that a quarter of the population will be over the age of 65.
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When I'm 65 is a challenging new ´óÏó´«Ã½ One primetime season set to tackle a subject that affects everyone: ageing.
Find out more about the rest of the programmes in the season…
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Explore lots more content on the subject of ageing from across the ´óÏó´«Ã½:
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´óÏó´«Ã½ News: Nearly one in five UK citizens 'to reach 100'

10 million people in the UK will live to be centenarians, according to an Office for National Statistics report in December 2010.
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´óÏó´«Ã½ News: Genes predict living beyond 100
Can US scientists really predictÌýwhether aÌýperson will live beyondÌý100? They haveÌýidentified genetic markers that are "most different" between centenarians and randomly selected individuals.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4: You and Yours - The Art and Science of Ageing
Artists and scientists comeÌýtogether to convey some of the truths about ageing...
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Horizon: How to live to 101

Highlights from the 2008 programme, plus for a long life and to live to 101.
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4: Today - Do we all want to live to 100?

Dame Joan Bakewell takes part inÌýa debateÌýabout the science and ethics of ageing with The Today Programme.
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Broadcasts
- Mon 9 Jul 2012 22:35´óÏó´«Ã½ One except Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales
- Mon 9 Jul 2012 23:05´óÏó´«Ã½ One Scotland & Wales only
- Mon 9 Jul 2012 23:15´óÏó´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
- Sat 11 Aug 2012 03:05
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