Tag: ageism

14 November 2019

Lizzie Penny + Alex Hirst

The fast-changing world of work is explored this time on The Big Middle. I used to spend far too much of my early mornings jumping on and off trains to […]
1 August 2019

Jeremy King

A trailblazing effort to attract older workers to the restaurant trade is why this episode of The Big Middle sees me happily installed in the splendour of The Delaunay grand […]
25 July 2019

Margaret Morganroth Gullette

You’re about to hear from an anti-ageism voice most powerful, with a reach that’s truly global. Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s many books and essays about ageing and ageism – especially in […]
11 July 2019

Carl Honoré

On this episode of The Big Middle, a big thinker and crusader against evil ageism and racing through life instead of actually living it. Carl Honoré is a prolific author, […]
25 April 2019

Stephen Burke

The UK is among the world’s most age-segregated societies. Generations seldom mix outside of families. We’ve sorted ourselves into age silos, keeping young from middle and old, feeding suspicion and […]
21 March 2019

Jeanette Leardi

Reasons to be cheerful about global efforts to stamp out ageism across the generations on this week’s The Big Middle. Jeanette Leardi is a social gerontologist and a prolific writer […]
28 February 2019

Aubrey de Grey

My third and final guest from the recent Longevity Leaders conference in London is a superstar of the longevity space. Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey is – by many a […]
21 February 2019

Wilf Blackburn

This is the second episode from this month’s Longevity Leaders conference in London – the first of its kind. Think of the conference as the equivalent of the World Economic […]
7 February 2019

Elizabeth White

When my job disappeared in my 50s, I didn’t worry. I’d been a good saver, the future was exciting, unknown – let the next adventure begin. I hadn’t even heard […]
24 January 2019

Marci Alboher

“What if we looked at our ageing population not as a problem but as an army of experienced social problem solvers” That quotable quote is from my guest, author Marci […]
13 December 2018

Jonathan Rauch

Subscribers to The Big Middle will have heard just about every guest mention the U-curve of happiness. Along the life course, social and brain science shows the curve is happy-miserable-happy […]
29 November 2018

Nadia Tuma-Weldon

Changing mouldy mindsets is no small order in a world full of media messages that reinforce arbitrary judgements based solely on age. If you’re young, you’re this way, if you’re […]