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Presented by Hugh Scully. A special edition to mark the 80th anniversary of the old age pension.
It took a long and bitter campaign to win the first five shilling pension in 1909. Eighty years on, Helen Madden finds that some pensioners - including Jack Jones and Barbara Castle - are still campaigning.
What of the future? Will the growth of private schemes eventually make the state pension unnecessary? Is the newly-formed Association for Retired Persons the right organisation to take pensioners into the 1990s? Producer TIM LAMBERT
Series editor CHRIS LENT (e)
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Presented By:
Hugh Scully.
Unknown:
Helen Madden
Unknown:
Jack Jones
Producer:
Tim Lambert
Source: Radio Times

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