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S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How Do You Know When You're 89?

I think age just moves around. You can find quite tired people in their 40s and you can find people like David Humber full of ideas. People like that appeal to me. The life-changing event was my going to Cambridge, which was my comparison to Stockport in those days - it was paradise on earth. So I remember the 60s fondly, although there was a lot of things about it that weren't very nice. But I think the 60s were very challenging in terms of the rate of change they were having. And it was happening in music. It was happening in ideas. It was also happening in government legislation. That's where I felt I could be a

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