How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams
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How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams
Turning 60 isn’t about slowing down—it’s about shaking things up. Whether it’s downsizing and embracing a simpler life, starting a new career, moving abroad, or navigating love and relationships in unexpected ways, How To Be 60 proves that this stage of life is anything but predictable.Join Kaye Ada...
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Midweek Catchup: A Year On, And It's Only Just Hitting
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Karen marks a year since her breast cancer diagnosis and admits she's only just starting to feel it. Because no one te...
Philippa Perry: Why Your Kids Went Quiet (And What They Wish You'd Ask)
Philippa Perry on why adult children go no contact, what they wish their parents understood, and why the door might open again if you try a different...
Midweek Catchup: Six-Packs, Bingo Wings and Using Meryl Streep as Your Inspo
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we're back together after Karen's Crete holiday and straight into the big questions: is Kaye developing a six-pack or...
Mia Mauge: From Invisible to Unstoppable — The Power of Showing Up at 60
On this week's episode, we're joined by Mia Mauge, who went from feeling invisible in her forties to walking onto a Marks & Spencer's lingerie set at...
Midweek Catchup: When Your Belly Button Starts Looking Like The Scream
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we discover that Kaye has been staring at her belly button in the mirror and what she found there is... haunting. Kare...
Victoria Hislop: The Woman Who Found Adversity Easier Than Success
On this week's episode, we're joined by Victoria Hislop, bestselling author, honorary Greek citizen, and the woman who celebrated her 60th birthday wa...
Midweek Catchup: Bum Cheeks, Ballet and the Makeup Counter From Hell
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Kaye's in Milan playing loyal assistant on Donna May's business trip (hairbrush already cleaned, wash bag already judg...
Wendi Peters: A Carpet Fitter, A Terrible Wig, and the Art of Not Giving a Damn
On this week's episode, we're joined by Wendi Peters - Corrie legend, current star of the touring theatre production Glorious, and living proof that t...
Midweek Catchup: Video Calls, Toilet Seats & a Letter from Downing Street
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Kaye nearly video-calls a professional contact from the loo (don't judge - you've done it), Karen's losing her voice t...
Jo Hamilton: The Post Office Took Everything — Except Her Fight
On this week's episode, we're joined by Jo Hamilton, the village sub-postmistress who was wrongly convicted of false accounting in the Post Office Hor...
Midweek Catchup: Forgot the VIP, Found the Earbuds, Bartered at the Optician's
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Kaye bought a Peter Kay VIP package, forgot about it entirely, and queued in the rain like a mug. Karen lost her earbu...
Tessa Peake-Jones: Why Being Alone at 60 Might Be the Best Relationship You've Ever Had
On this week's episode, we're joined by Tessa Peake-Jones, one of Britain's most beloved actors (yes, Raquel from Only Fools and Horses, and yes, she...
Midweek Catchup: Two Women, Two Holidays, One Mango Massacre
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we're reporting live from separate corners of Spain (well, almost) with tales of holiday chaos that'll feel painfully...
Donna Ashworth: Grief, Growth and the Freedom to Become Yourself
This week Kaye and Karen are joined by Donna Ashworth. Bestselling poet, wellbeing advocate, and author of Loss: The New Collection.
Donna talks...
Midweek Catchup: Sangria, Seromas and Stolen Mango
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we're recording across borders — Kaye at home, Karen on a sunny balcony in Seville, and honestly, it's never felt more...
Rosie O’Donnell: Reinvention, Motherhood, and the Gift of Getting Older
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Rosie O’Donnell, who opens up about building a life that finally feels like her own - from leaving America fo...
Midweek Catchup: Broadcasting from a Hospital Waiting Room (Popcorn Included)
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re coming to you from a Glasgow hospital waiting area — because life doesn’t pause neatly for podcasts, does it? Be...
Sheila Nollert: No Expiry Dates - Why One Woman Canoed into the Wilderness at 65
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Sheila Nollert, who decided that turning 65 was exactly the moment to do something many people said she should...
Midweek Catchup: Oatcakes, Journaling and Life’s Unexpected Curveballs
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, Kaye and Karen chat about the things that creep up on you in midlife — from unstoppable snacking (hello oatcakes and p...
Daisy Goodwin: The Internal Fire Alarm — Anxiety, Ambition and a Second Adolescence
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Daisy Goodwin, novelist, screenwriter and creator of Victoria, who joins Kaye and Karen for a candid conversat...
Midweek Catchup: Loggate, Needles & New Beginnings
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we unpick the drama that gripped absolutely no one but us… Loggate. Yes, the missing firewood, the woodyard showdown,...
Suzi Quatro: Determined, Independent and Not Slowing Down at 75
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Suzi Quatro, who at 75 is still doing exactly what she loves ... releasing new music and heading back out on t...
Midweek Catchup: Bathroom Floors, Gas Bills & Stabbing the Devil
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we need to warn you. The first ten minutes involve Karen, a stomach bug, and a decision no woman should have to make b...
Sally Gunnell: Hurdling Towards 60 — The Champion's Guide to Ageing Well
On this week's episode, we're joined by Olympic gold medallist and all-round legend Sally Gunnell, who, just months out from her 60th birthday, is pro...
Midweek Catchup: Duck Eggs, Lost Rings and the Weird Comfort of Superstition
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we wander cheerfully off-piste — from the unexpected thrill of blue duck eggs and medication-induced hunger, to Valent...
Mandy Appleyard: Caring for Mum, Dignitas and the Police Knock at the Door
On this week's episode, we're joined by journalist-turned-celebrant Mandy Appleyard, who shares the extraordinary story of what happened when her fier...
Midweek Catchup: Love, Loss and the Things We Can’t Replace
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re talking about the strange emotional whiplash of midlife — from Valentine’s Day expectations (or lack of them), t...
Michaela Strachan: Perky, Proud and Not Apologising for It
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Michaela Strachan, TV icon, wildlife champion and a woman very clear on who she is at nearly 60. Michaela talk...
Midweek Catchup: Manifesting Horses, £40 Socks and Big Life Buttons
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re waving goodbye to January, welcoming a galloping Year of the Horse, and asking whether manifestation actually wo...
Josie Lawrence: Improvising Life, Love, and What Comes Next
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Josie Lawrence - comedy icon, improv legend, and living proof that confidence and anxiety can happily coexist....
Midweek Catchup: Aches, Itches & the Great Travel Insurance Panic
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re knee-deep in the small-but-consuming realities of midlife: mysterious itches that turn out to be nerve damage, s...
Elise Johnston: Reinvention, Desire, and Why It’s Never Too Late to Want More
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Alese Johnston, founder of Fabulous 70 and unapologetic queen of reinvention, who believes life doesn’t wind d...
Midweek Catchup: Roots, Radiotherapy & Why We Deserve the Jaffa Cakes
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we talk pink cheeks, overdue roots, and the strange intimacy of finishing radiotherapy - plus the unexpected emotional...
Lucy Kellaway: The Best Kind of Late Midlife Crisis (AKA Starting Again at 58)
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Lucy Kellaway OBE, 64 — former Financial Times columnist who did something genuinely radical on the edge of 60...
Midweek Catchup: Grey Roots, Runny Noses & Holding Your Breath (Literally)
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re talking about those very specific midlife moments no one warns you about. When your roots feel louder than your...
Jackie Kay: Identity, Ageing, and the Freedom of Not Fitting In
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Jackie Kay - poet, novelist, former Scots Makar and one of the sharpest, warmest thinkers on identity, belongi...
Taking Down the Tree, Leaving the Label On ... and Starting the Year as You Mean to Go On
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re easing into 2026 the only way we know how: chatting through the small domestic dramas that somehow say everythin...
Midweek Catchup: Twixmas Time-Warp, Questionable Oysters & When Christmas Loses the Plot
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re firmly in that strange in-between zone where no one knows what day it is, Christmas feels like it happened month...
Midweek Catchup: Chemo Side Effects, Surprise Beards & Why Pilates Costs £34
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re recording on Christmas Eve and doing what we do best — talking honestly about how life actually feels at this ag...
A Life and a Half — Love, Faith, Survival and Not Giving a Monkey’s
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Sir Chris Bryant - MP, minister, memoirist, and living proof that life rarely runs in straight lines. Chris ta...