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The BBC’s season about elderly people and how society cares for and deals with them continues with three programmes, all very good in their own ways. In
June Brown: Respect Your Elders (Thu, 10.35pm, BBC1) Dot Cotton examines the care options for OAPs and explores why relations between differing generations seem to be strained. In
The Town That Never Retired (Wed, 9pm, BBC1) Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford travel to Preston for a social ...
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The BBC’s season about elderly people and how society cares for and deals with them continues with three programmes, all very good in their own ways. In
June Brown: Respect Your Elders (Thu, 10.35pm, BBC1) Dot Cotton examines the care options for OAPs and explores why relations between differing generations seem to be strained. In
The Town That Never Retired (Wed, 9pm, BBC1) Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford travel to Preston for a social experiment in which 14 OAPs come out of retirement to do jobs including building, working in an estate agent and being a waiter. With rising life expectancy, and shrinking pensions, it could be all our futures. Given those two programmes, not too sure why anyone would want to, but
How To Live Beyond 100 (Mon, 10.35pm, BBC1) features centenarians – we currently have 12,000 and the figure could rise to eight times that or more – telling the young ‘uns how it is done. Elsewhere, Olympic preparations comedy
Twenty Twelve (Tue, 10pm, BBC2) returns after a break. ‘West Wing’ legend Aaron Sorkin has a new one:
The Newsroom (Tue, 10pm, Sky Atlantic) (Pictured).
Show Me Your Money (Wed, 10pm, C4) uses a large South London plumbing firm as the basis for an experiment in which employees know each other’s salaries. And in
Bank Of Dave (Thu, 9pm, C4), a self-made man from Lancashire decides to set up his own bank. Could hardly be worse than the current shower, could he?
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