Author: Susan Flory

  • Adrian Juric

    The politics of longevity and the need for global action against evil ageism are much discussed on The Big Middle. Across the life course of my podcast – eight months […]

  • Tina Woods

    You may well have missed the birth here in the UK of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on longevity. The announcement coincided with our first glimpse of a certain baby Archie. […]

  • Richard Eisenberg

    This week on The Big Middle, a podcast postcard from the five Blue Zones. You likely know it was journalist Dan Buettner who first put these five pockets of longevity […]

  • Stephen Burke

    The UK is among the world’s most age-segregated societies. Generations seldom mix outside of families. We’ve sorted ourselves into age silos, keeping young from middle and old, feeding suspicion and […]

  • Lucy Kellaway + Katie Waldegrave

    So many of us hit a career wall at halftime. Circumstances force change or we actively seek it. Even when chucked out due to retrenchment or evil ageism, many fiftysomethings […]

  • Marc Freedman

    Search How to Live Forever online and you’ll get one billion 30 million hits – most about conquering disease and death, the mind-blowing efforts of longevity scientists. My guest is […]

  • Jeanette Leardi

    Reasons to be cheerful about global efforts to stamp out ageism across the generations on this week’s The Big Middle. Jeanette Leardi is a social gerontologist and a prolific writer […]

  • Ryan Child

    One of the biggest issues or our time, across all ages, across much of the world, is the silent epidemic of loneliness. In our click + connect age, real life […]

  • Deborah Garlick

    These days, we openly talk about virtually everything. So why oh why are some shtum when it comes to menopause? Too many barely whisper the word when it’s a life […]

  • Aubrey de Grey

    My third and final guest from the recent Longevity Leaders conference in London is a superstar of the longevity space. Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey is – by many a […]

  • Thank you Old School Info

    The Big Middle is now featured on  Old School Info. That’s the world’s only free, vetted, anti-ageism resource.  It’s a treasure trove of essential reading, watching and listening about all […]

  • Wilf Blackburn

    This is the second episode from this month’s Longevity Leaders conference in London – the first of its kind. Think of the conference as the equivalent of the World Economic […]

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