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Getting ready for the 100-year life

Episode 5 of 5

Amol Rajan and guests look at our rapidly ageing world and ask how governments, and individuals, can prepare for a very different sort of future.

Amol Rajan and his guests look for some answers on how to tackle the challenges thrown up by demographic change. From the pressure put on governments by burgeoning populations of young people, to the tactics best adopted by those of us planning to live to a hundred.

GUESTS

Camilla Cavendish, former Director of Policy for Prime Minister David Cameron, Financial Times columnist and author of 'Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World'

Professor Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School and author of 'The 100-Year Life - Living and Working in an Age of Longevity'

Dr Eliza Filby writer and historian

Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford and author of 'Is the Planet Full?'

Presenter: Amol Rajan
Producer: Lucinda Borrell
Editor: Kirsty Reid

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42 minutes

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Sat 5 Feb 2022 19:15

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