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The pod for people making the most of retirement. Packed with practical advice on everything from finance to travel, health to culture, fitness to fun. Presented by Mike Talbot and Louise Priest.
Shy Of Retiring?
How do you view retirement? Fun? Scary? Financially - or factually - painful? Every fortnight, recently-retired broadcasters Louise Priest and Mike Talbot compare notes as they pick their way through the world after work. Expert guests offer advice on everything from finance to fitness. Expect top tips on how to spend your time and save your money.
Episodes
Apr 9, 2025
Apr 9, 2025
27 min
Sober coach Amanda Lindsay discusses our relationship with alcohol; plus tips on cost-cutting mobile phones, choosing the right kind of friends, and what to read and watch.
Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
32 min
How much will I need? The challenge of balancing the books in later life; plus advice for a long and happy retirement from a 92-year-old social media singing sensation.
Mar 12, 2025
Mar 12, 2025
29 min
First steps on the road to retirement - key questions you should answer; plus the value of volunteering, all the help on hand from Age UK Norwich, and books, films and money-saving tips..
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
23 min
And more to the point, what do you do? Mike and Louise discuss losing identity, finding time, losing colleagues, finding friends - and what else to discuss on a podcast about retirement. Plus Mike On The Money's first cash-saving tip, and words of wisdom from the Priest In The Pulpit.
Mike Talbot
Mike Talbot’s media career began on the dizzy heights of the Beccles and Bungay Journal back in the 80s, when golden wedding anniversaries were big news. After graduating to the Eastern Daily Press, he ventured across the car park to join Anglia Television as a researcher, reporter and producer in news and current affairs. Anglia had a global reputation for natural history programmes like Survival and dramas like Tales Of The Unexpected. Mike mostly made films about seagulls in Southwold. After spells at Central TV and ITV Cymru Wales in Cardiff, he returned to Norwich, first as CEO of the Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind and then to head up the team at ITV Anglia.
Louise Priest
Louise Priest began her media life as a BBC local radio reporter, working in Guernsey, Derby and Birmingham before joining BBC Radio Norfolk. After a few years in news followed by a stint at presenting, she joined BBC Look East as a reporter and then presenter. Louise’s first TV appearances included feeding bats and sitting on a bus next to a bear called Pudsey! She took a couple of years off to start a family, before she returned to BBC Radio Norfolk as the breakfast show presenter for six years and then back to the BBC Look East production and presenting team.
Older And Bolder with Mike & Louise is supported by Age UK Norwich and recorded at the city studios of Future Radio.
Views expressed in the podcast are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the sponsors.