Tag: Midlife

  • Jeremy King [REPLAY+]

    The pandemic has hammered the job prospects of older workers. We got a measure of how hard in the latest from the UK’s official recordkeeper, the Office for National Statistics. Vacancies […]

  • Dr Jay Wrigley

    I’ve got just the right learned guest for you to spill all the tea on the interaction between hormones and food and feeling your healthy best when all is in […]

  • Kerry Hannon

    We are talking work this time – the now, how, why and even the what-to-wear of it through the murky lens of COVID. “None of us know where it’s headed; […]

  • Judy + Adrian Reith

    Regular listeners to my podcast know I’ve got a well-developed aversion to preachy, paternalistic books about how to figure out what next in The Big Middle years, mid-40s through 70s. […]

  • Dr Linda Fried

    A virus-light episode once more. This isn’t only because I’m finally seeing the back of a tiresome head cold/flu combo – no cough, no fever so it seems not COVID […]

  • Peter Mangan

    There’s a silent but alarming epidemic of loneliness and social isolation across the rich world across all ages. The World Health Organization now lists lack of social support networks as […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Stuart Lewis

    There is an ocean of statistics swishing around these days on the degree of takeup in rich countries of the renewable asset of mature workers. In the UK, the adjective […]

  • 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, […]

  • Adrian Juric

    The politics of longevity and the need for global action against evil ageism are much discussed on The Big Middle. Across the life course of my podcast – eight months […]

  • 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 […]

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