Host Angeline Albert asks what is life like for a care home in lockdown? Care worker Jack Johnson, 91-year-old resident Doreen Empson & Danielle Bullent manager at Laurel Lodge care home talk about making residents laugh out loud in lockdown, taking on different jobs including hair-modelling and new activities like a care home penpal scheme which gave nonagenarian Doreen a new admirer. 

Host Angeline Albert talks to Anita Astle, the managing director of Wren Hall Nursing Home in Nottingham, where 13 residents died of Covid-19.   She also fell ill with Covid-19. 

The care home owner talks candidly about government failures including PPE shortages, no testing for residents who died at her care home and "poor and conflicting" guidance.      

She says it was the community that gave her the help and "morale boost" that kept her and her staff going.

Co-hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to Martin Green, chief executive of Care England about his passion for the care sector which is nearly as strong as his passion for Newcastle as well as his sense of injustice and his desire to improve people's lives and make the world a better place. 

Host Angeline Albert talks to Care minister Caroline Dinenage about her husband’s death threats, government thinking on social care reform and her encounters with the Kray twins. 

The minister talks about why a long term solution for social care hasn't arrived and says she can't promise a plan will arrive by the summer.

Co-hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to TV broadcaster and Classic FM presenter John Suchet and his wife Nula about how dementia affected them individually and as a couple, how they coped putting their soul mates into a care home, their feelings of guilt, and the stress of looking after a loved one with dementia.

Co-hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to Norma Howard, who at the age of 91 became the UK’s oldest female wing-walker. If that is not exhausting enough, Norma has ridden the wall of death, swum the equivalent of the English Channel and is an experienced pilot. 

Host Angeline Albert talks to 106-year-old Freda Hodgson and Dorothy Gayler, aged 101, two of the nine members of what has been dubbed The 100+ Club as well as care staff at Whiteley Village.

Host Angeline Albert talks to broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen about loneliness, the right to die, ageism, climate change and care robots

Co-hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to Wendy Mitchell, who was diagnosed with early onset dementia at the age of 58. Since her diagnosis, she has written a bestselling memoir called ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ and hopes that by spreading awareness she can help people to understand what it is like living with dementia.

Co-hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to Gyles Brandreth about his new book ‘Dancing by the Light of the Moon’ where he not only discusses his passion for poetry but how learning poetry can be good for all and help delay the onset of dementia.