Podcasts of the week: pensioners, pubs and Hollywood's underbelly
Simon Schluter/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images Audible’s new podcast Growing Old Disgracefully promises “remarkable stories told by remarkable people”. For once, this is “not an exaggerated claim”, said Fiona Sturges in the FT. There’s “gaming grandma” Shirley, who has her own YouTube channel at 85. There’s Ernestine, an octogenarian bodybuilder, and Graham, who rowed across the Atlantic in his 70s. We meet Patrick, 76, enjoying late-blooming success as a gay country-and-western singer. And Sherry, who was abandoned by her husband after 25 years of marriage, ...