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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Nov. 10, 2026
Midweek Catchup: The Avocado That Ended a Romance
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we work out how small a thing it takes to end a romance. For Karen, it was a man who thought her avocado was a lime. For Kaye, it was a tongue in the ear over a pub lunch, and a mum who came round every Tuesday to do his washing. Karen is on her fourth cold in four months, and Kaye has been shopping for a spittoon. Kaye admits she has started doing the things that used to annoy her about her own mum. Ian hosts eight colleagues on two packets of crisps and four be
Nov. 5, 2026
Vanessa Feltz: Finally Her Own Boss at 64
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Vanessa Feltz, who was supposed to be winding down when we last spoke four years ago. Instead, at 64, she has launched her own YouTube show, where guests join her on her bed, and is running a business for the first time in her life. After 38 years of bosses telling her what she couldn’t do, she is the one making the calls now, and she loves it. She talks about nearly four years on her own after a lifetime of never being single for more than a few weeks, a
Nov. 3, 2026
Midweek Catchup: The Sicilian, the Tennis and the Russian Salad
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we read out your verdicts on Kate Mulvey and her Sicilian, including one email so cross it ended with a Godfather reference. Most of you are with Karen. Kaye, meanwhile, has been quietly trying out compromise. She went to watch Ian play tennis. She said nothing when he ate the Russian salad. Whether either counts as progress is up for debate. Karen is back in the family home with her sister, who has done the impossible and converted her to tofu. Kaye has discover
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
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