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Some of My Best Friends Are Old

2003 23m Television
  • Documentary
  • Arts/Culture

When this programme aired in 2003, old people made up 12% of the population, with a prediction that the figure would more than double over 50 years. This episode of Some of My Best Friends Are is filled with oldies kicking the stereotypes. There are ballroom dancers and Kylie Minogue listeners, a prisoner-of-war-turned-author of a book about 1920s cabaret, and a Whangārei kaumātua and kuia. Presenter Pio Terei picks up advice on staying fit, staying in love, and most of all — staying young at heart.