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Holding Back the Years

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A look at how to stay well, live longer and be healthy - whatever age you are.

Hosted by Bill Turnbull, Fiona Phillips and Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Holding Back the Years looks at how to stay well, live longer and be healthy - whatever age you are.

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Holding Back the Years: Series 1

Maureen Lipman

Paul Connolly

Brian Stanley

Holding Back the Years: Series 1: Episode 1: Maureen Lipman

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Episode 1: Maureen Lipman

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BBC One - Holding Back the Years, Series 1, Maureen Lipman

Maureen Lipman discovers how people can avoid loneliness as they grow older.

Well-known faces explore concerns about ageing. Maureen Lipman returns to Hull to meet people who have found different ways to stay social and avoid loneliness.

Five much-loved celebrities get to the bottom of the key ageing concerns that affect the public.

Maureen Lipman travels back to her home town of Hull to meet inspirational characters who have found different ways to stay social and avoid loneliness in later years. Drawing on her own experiences after losing her husband of over 30 years, playwright Jack Rosenthal, she hears stories of triumph and tragedy from regulars at a local bingo hall, while over lunch at the Royal Voluntary Service club she runs the raffle and hears the highly vocal opinions of customers and volunteers alike. Maureen sees the dramatic difference made to people's lives by a kennels that specialises in offering dogs to older people and also meets men who have found companionship in their supersized shed. Finally, she encounters a group who have put the social into learning and asks a couple their secret after a marriage lasting over 60 years.

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Five celebrities get to the bottom of key concerns related to ageing.

By meeting remarkable members of the public and using fascinating archive footage, five celebrities get to the bottom of key concerns related to ageing.

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