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The Big Questions

Series 6

Episode 21

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Nicky Campbell presents a special edition of The Big Questions from Pyramid and Parr Hall in Warrington and asks just one question: are today's young being expected to pay too much for the baby boomers?

Amongst those taking part are president-elect of the NUS Toni Pearce, professor Vanessa Burholt from the Centre for Innovative Ageing in Swansea, Angus Hanton from the Intergenerational Foundation, the former old-age tsar professor Ian Philp, Dr Patrick Nolan from Reform, author of Jilted Generation Ed Howker, Heather Wakefield from Unison, Karen Phillips from Jewish social care charity The Fed, Jonathan Clatworthy from the Modern Churchpeople's Union, Sufi Muslim Haras Rafiq, Janet Moore from Independent Age, and Elsie Richardson, an 87-year-old PhD student. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Nicky Campbell
Director:
Rob Hopkin
Participant:
Tom Pearce
Participant:
Vanessa Burholt
Participant:
Angus Hanton
Participant:
Ian Philp
Participant:
Patrick Nolan
Participant:
Ed Howker
Participant:
Heather Wakefield
Participant:
Karen Phillips
Participant:
Haras Rafiq
Participant:
Janet Moore
Participant:
Elsie Richardson

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