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Holding Back the Years

Series 3

Episode 5

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for years

Fiona Phillips and Dr Rangan Chatterjee present a series designed to help people to live longer while increasing the quality of their lives.

This edition comes from Coventry, and asks - with the NHS moving towards rationing more surgery for chronic conditions, is having an operation a right? We meet the OAP hoarders who are being threatened with eviction, and what lessons can we learn from the country with the longest life expectancy in the world - Japan? Show less

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