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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Sept. 3, 2026
Jay Rayner: Turning 60 With His Appetite Intact
On this week's episode, we're joined by Jay Rayner, who turns 60 ten days after this goes out and will spend the day itself on stage in York. Before that, he answers the question he sets himself in his new book: am I a total bastard? The restaurant critic, now cook, talks about growing up as Claire Rayner's son, opening some of her thousand letters a week as a pocket money job, a family that did its talking loudly over a full table, and why, sixteen years after her death, the nepotism jibe still
Sept. 1, 2026
Midweek Catchup: Kaye Has Dead Butt Syndrome
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we compare ailments. Kaye has diagnosed herself with dead butt syndrome, which explains the hips, the 18-year-old mattress and the trip to the chiropractor. Her treatment plan involves a tulip-shaped device she once bought Karen for the Fringe. External use only. Karen is on day seven of warm water and lemon and has been invited for a jab whose leaflet opens with the over-75s. Also this week: the £3,000 cleaning quote, Ian up the scaffolding, and Karen’s first Chr
Aug. 27, 2026
AC Scott: The Broadcaster Who Disappeared and Came Back Singing
On this week's episode, we're joined by AC Scott, better known to Scottish audiences as broadcaster Alison Craig, who vanished from our screens in 2012 after a rare lung condition collapsed both her lungs and a consultant told her she had ten years to live. What happened next is the strange part. A songwriting weekend on the west coast of Scotland, a phone call from an Emmy-winning American producer telling her she was a songwriter, and the A&R veteran who discovered Jeff Buckley and signed Moby
Aug. 25, 2026
Midweek Catchup: The Phone Call Kaye Wouldn't Pick Up
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we find out why Kaye's head is glued back on. After more than a year of putting it off, she's had half her thyroid removed, and when the hospital rang five days later with the results, she let it ring out. Twice. Karen, meanwhile, has talked her way out of a prescription for antidepressants and into a pharmacist's alternative plan, and is dispatching garden slugs with the cheapest lager Lidl sells. Also on the agenda: a worldwide mango shortage that may only exis
Aug. 20, 2026
Milly Johnson: The Arthritic Knee That Saved Her Life
On this week's episode, we're joined by bestselling author Milly Johnson, who planned a year-long celebration of turning 60 and credits an arthritic knee with saving her life. Before the Yorkshire Pudding Club and three million book sales, there were decades of proper jobs, years of rejection, and a marriage so bad she filed for divorce while five months pregnant. Milly spent thirty years looking after everyone else — first her boys, then her parents — and decided this decade would be hers. Veni
Aug. 18, 2026
Midweek Catchup: Back to Earth with a Bump
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we come back down to earth after the Fringe — to a filthy house, a poorly husband and the guilty remains of a packet of chocolate-covered pecans. Kaye's been in London doing ITV, where she talked a very nice photographer into taking her passport photo while she still had her telly makeup on. That's her sorted until she's 72. Karen, meanwhile, has been collecting firewood. In August. Mostly though, this one belongs to the emails from people who came to the Edinbur
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