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How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams

by Kaye Adams
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    October 22, 2026 · 46 min

    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…

  • Midweek Catchup: Is Kaye Letting the Side Down by Dyeing Her Hair?

    October 20, 2026 · 25 min

    On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we read out a listener’s mum’s diary of good deeds, including the day she cleaned her husband’s toothbrush and warmed his feet. Karen is calling in from Spain, where she has been recognised three times since…

  • Professor Tanya Byron: On the Cusp of 60 and Done with Therapy-Speak

    October 15, 2026 · 44 min

    On this week's episode, we're joined by clinical psychologist and broadcaster Professor Tanya Byron, of The House of Tiny Tearaways fame. She's six months off 60 and celebrating all year with friends she's known since she was 11. Tanya…

  • Midweek Catchup: The Great Cottage Cheese Crisis

    October 13, 2026 · 25 min

    On this week's Midweek Catchup, Lildl has stopped selling full-fat cottage cheese, and Karen, who eats it daily for her bones, is touring the supermarkets for the perfect lumpy, not watery, pot. Kaye finally ditches her grim old water…

  • Louise Doughty: The Suitcase That Rewrote My Parents' Love Story

    October 8, 2026 · 54 min

    On this week's episode, we're joined by Louise Doughty, who found a rusted black suitcase at the bottom of her late mum's wardrobe and nearly put it out with the bins. Inside were scores of undated letters charting the secret affair her…

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  • Midweek Catchup: Are You in a Care Home or What?

    October 6, 2026 · 27 min

    On this week's Midweek Catchup, Karen is up at the family home in a winged velour chair that Kaye swears belongs in a care home. She's been foraging for chanterelles, the only mushroom she can identify, and with nothing else to carry them…

  • Julia Macklin: The Day I Looked Into My Own Eyes

    October 1, 2026 · 55 min

    On this week's episode, we're joined by Julia Macklin, who was 15 in 1983 when her baby daughter was taken from her for adoption. Not 1953. 1983. Julia grew up in a devout Catholic family in Manchester and was told, again and again, that…

  • Midweek Catchup: The Friend, the Bare Feet and the Thing Under the Chair

    September 29, 2026 · 24 min

    On this week's Midweek Catchup, we find out what Kaye does when a friend is pouring her heart out, barefoot, and the dog has left something under the chair. The short answer is nothing. We also compare first flats. Karen bought hers in…

  • Francesca Hicks: Cabin Crew at 62, After Every Other CV Got Binned

    September 24, 2026 · 39 min

    On this week's episode, we're joined by Francesca Hicks, who saw an easyJet recruitment story on the morning news at 62 and had applied by the time she got home. She'd been sending CVs out for months and getting nowhere. Employers looked…

  • Midweek Catchup: Is There an Age You Move from Porn to Vinted?

    September 22, 2026 · 21 min

    On this week's Midweek Catchup, we lose a hearing aid at a flat viewing in Edinburgh, get glared at by our own daughter for whistling, and lock ourselves out of the house, all in the one week. Karen, meanwhile, has had a cooking apple…

  • Keith Brymer Jones: Clay, Tears and a Welsh Chapel

    September 17, 2026 · 49 min

    On this week's episode, we're joined by Keith Brymer Jones, who is marrying his partner Marge next year and having the wedding rings made out of clay. He's also planning the whole wedding himself. Marge knows nothing and has said she'll…

  • Midweek Catchup: What on Earth Is Aura Farming?

    September 15, 2026 · 25 min

    On this week's Midweek Catchup, we find out what "aura farming" means, after four days in Spain with a crowd of twenty-year-olds who don't wash dishes. At all. Karen, meanwhile, is nursing another stinker of a cold, came home from Sunday…

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About the show

Turning 60 isn’t about slowing down—it’s about shaking things up. Whether it’s downsizing and embracing a simpler life, starting a new career, moving abroad, or navigating love and relationships in unexpected ways, How To Be 60 proves that this stage of life is anything but predictable.Join Kaye Adams and her brilliantly blunt co-host, Karen MacKenzie, as they chat with familiar faces and everyday people rewriting the rulebook on aging. With honesty, humour, and plenty of surprises, they explore what it really means to embrace change, challenge expectations, and make the years ahead the best yet.If you’re wondering what’s next—or just need a reminder that it’s never too late to do something bold - this is the podcast for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.