How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams
There isn't much that scares Kaye Adams. National TV? Easy.Live Radio phone-in show? Like falling off a log.Approaching 60 though.......WAAAHHHHH!!! That's terrifying!!However, with the help of her filter-free friend Karen, some well known guests and most importantly, YOU, she might just learn....How To Be 60. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct. 29, 2026
Kate Mulvey: Did Breakfast in Bed End My Sicilian Romance?
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by writer Kate Mulvey, whose summer romance began with a kiss under an erupting Etna and ended over breakfast in bed. At 64, Kate has made something of a speciality of examining her own 60s, and she doesn’t spare herself. She talks about the miscarriage at 41 that made her realise she had a lifestyle but not a life, the flowers she crushed by asking for olive oil instead, and the light-blocking, earplug-wearing sleep regime that may have cost her a man. Kate
Oct. 27, 2026
Midweek Catchup: Bananagrams, the Ultimate Adrenaline Sport
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’ve swapped places. Kaye is sunbathing on a Spanish beach at the end of October, and Karen is back in stormy Scotland with a freshly re-broken toe, courtesy of a sunbed leg. There’s the flight home through the storm that nobody wants to repeat, Donna May bullying Kaye into a sea that was more Atlantic than Mediterranean, and a run of mysterious Amazon orders that turn out to be a Halloween costume in progress. Duck feathers, a tutu and a lace-up silk bodice. Mak
Oct. 22, 2026
Amanda Prowse: Cake on a Tuesday, a Son Who Stopped Talking and an HGV Dream
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Amanda Prowse, who says she found her power at 50 thanks to an Instagram post about birthday cake. The bestselling novelist wasn’t published until her forties, and she talks about the fear that ran her life before that, losing her brother Simon, and why she now thinks getting older is a privilege. She also talks about The Boy Between, the book she wrote with her son Josh about his depression, and what she got wrong trying to fix it. There’s the question f
Oct. 20, 2026
Midweek Catchup: Is Kaye Letting the Side Down by Dyeing Her Hair?
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we read out a listener’s mum’s diary of good deeds, including the day she cleaned her husband’s toothbrush and warmed his feet. Karen is calling in from Spain, where she has been recognised three times since leaving home and is not handling it quietly. Kaye is in a London hotel, having forgotten her room number and tried most of the doors on the third floor. Kaye also owns up to a crisis of conscience about colouring her hair. With so many women going grey, does
Oct. 15, 2026
Professor Tanya Byron: On the Cusp of 60 and Done with Therapy-Speak
On this week's episode, we're joined by clinical psychologist and broadcaster Professor Tanya Byron, of The House of Tiny Tearaways fame. She's six months off 60 and celebrating all year with friends she's known since she was 11. Tanya wrote much of her new book, You Are Not a Diagnosis, at her mother's bedside. Her mum lived with Alzheimer's, the long goodbye, and was in Tanya's words a model of courage, acceptance and distress tolerance. When her father died, Tanya wanted a diagnosis of depres
Oct. 13, 2026
Midweek Catchup: The Great Cottage Cheese Crisis
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Lildl has stopped selling full-fat cottage cheese, and Karen, who eats it daily for her bones, is touring the supermarkets for the perfect lumpy, not watery, pot. Kaye finally ditches her grim old water bottle and nearly vomits at the £40 price of a new one. And there's chocolate orange mini rolls for Mrs Pre-diabetic, a family holiday to Malaga, a hedge boundary row, and your treasured heirlooms, from 1890 steps to a curling stone. On Friday we're joined by Profe
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