A.M. in the Afternoon

Age: Nothing But a Number?

Episode Summary

Do we need botox? When should you stand for someone on the bus? Does age help or hinder in the workplace? In the year the original Material Girl turns 60, Ange and Margie take a long, hard look in the mirror and chat about how society views ageing.

Episode Notes

Do we need botox? When should you stand for someone on the bus? Does age help or hinder in the workplace? In the year the original Material Girl turns 60, Ange and Margie take a long, hard look in the mirror and chat about how society views ageing.

Explore our suggestions for things to read/watch/listen this episode:

• Instagram accounts @BaddieWinkle and @BonPon511 for some fabulous inspiration from seniors with serious style
• Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Book: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Book/film: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Book/film:The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Film: A Man called Ove
• Film: Death Becomes Her
• Film: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Films we didn't have time to mention in the podcast: Armour (a devastating French film about the repercussions on a marriage when an elderly woman has a stroke ) + The Notebook (yes, we've mentioned it before, and have a love/hate relationship with this movie. It makes us cry.)