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Kate Atkinson with Richard E. Grant

The Penguin Podcast

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Old Men and the Nursing Home

I used to work with old people a long time ago and they were all women. There was no old men at all I think women age better than men I don't know where that is but there's something about the bomber memorial you saw some of those old RAF guys who'd been invited to attend and they could barely stand but they would determine to. When I see an old man I always think he was once a little boy he was once someone's baby much more so than I do with women. Younger generations have no time for older generations, she says.

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