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Early Retirement
Hailed as part of the promised leisure age when we would all work less but earn more, the reality of early retirement was, for many, pensioner poverty, as over-50s were pushed out of the work force. Now that we are all being told to work even longer, Chris Bowlby asks what became of our early retirement dreams. Producer SmitaPatel

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