Holding Back the Years - Episode Guide

In this edition, Maureen Lipman returns to her home town of Hull to meet people who have found different ways to stay social and avoid loneliness in later years. She hears stories of triumph and tragedy from regulars at a local bingo hall and listens to the highly vocal opinions of customers and volunteers alike at the Royal Voluntary Service club. Maureen witnesses the dramatic difference made to peoples' lives by a kennels that specialises in offering dogs to older people and also meets men who have found companionship in their supersized shed. Finally, she encounters a group who have put the social into learning, and asks a couple their secret after a marriage lasting over 60 years.

In this episode, Angela Rippon travels to Devon to take a thought-provoking look at the different ways people can retire in Britain today, as well as meeting those who simply do not want to. First, she visits a luxury type of senior living for the lucky ones who can afford it. Helping out at a local charity shop, Angela meets a pensioner who leads a very frugal life and who shares some of her unusual money-saving tips. Finally, Angela heads to the local hospital to meet an 83-year-old nurse who has no intention of retiring, and she speaks to Martyn Rogers of Age UK, who has advice on how people of all ages should be thinking about their retirement now.

In this edition, Ainsley Harriott returns to his boyhood home in Wandsworth in south London. There, he visits a community centre bringing some Caribbean sunshine to London. He also meets 100-year-old Helen Clare, who made a name for herself as a singer during the Second World War, and takes her to the London hotel she first sang in over 70 years ago, and where he has arranged a magical surprise for her.

In this edition, Arlene Phillips returns to her home city of Manchester to meet people who are determined to live life to the full whatever their age. Arlene tries indoor skydiving with a group of ladies who say yes to almost anything. She meets a woman in her 60s considering yet another cosmetic procedure and talks to 71-year-old Jenny-Anne Bishop OBE, a transgender woman who left it late in life to make the full transition. Finally, Arlene retraces her steps to when she first moved to London and meets businesswoman Debbie Moore, head of the iconic Pineapple Dance Studios.

In this episode, Bill Turnbull travels to Edinburgh to expose some of the fake news about health in old age. He meets the pensioners involved in a unique experiment that dates back to the 1940s and looks at how the results it is producing today could help the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow. He gains access to a virtual hospital whose team monitor and treat patients - someof whom live hundreds of miles away - from a central HQ. And he explores the ways of fighting the ageing process, from the OAP gym bunnies and mediation through yoga to the ways technology is revolutionising mobility issues in old age.

In this episode, Bill Turnbull looks into the ups and downs of equity release, Fiona Phillips finds out why middle-age spread can be avoided, and Dr Rangan Chatterjee meets the man who survived his heart stopping for over an hour.

In this episode, Fiona Phillips investigates why Britain's older population is twice as likely to die in house fire, Dr Ranan Chatterjee encourages us to 'know our numbers' when it comes to blood pressure, and Bill Turnbull gets a bald makeover as he looks into how much men will spend to get a full head of hair.

In this episode, Fiona Phillips looks at how we can get our motoring mojo back through driving refresher courses, and Dr Rangan Chatterjee asks if we a nation addicted to painkillers.

In this episode, Fiona Phillips asks what we are doing about the loneliness epidemic in this country, and Dr Rangan Chatterjee looks into why sleep could be the key to good health.

In this episode, Fiona Phillips investigates the 'good, bad and ugly' side of the social care system. Bill Turnbull asks,'What's the point of cruising?'.

Bill Turnbull offers some pension advice. As part of Dr Rangan Chatterjee's Making Sense of your Senses week, he looks at what happens when we lose our hearing - and what can be done about it. Finally, with Britain's bungalow-building crisis bad news for anyone for who finds stairs difficult, Fiona Phillips asks whether building your own is an option.

Britain's pensioners are being targeted by phone if their name appears on a list. Fiona Phillips finds out the ways to combat the con artists. For Dr Rangan Chatterjee's Making Sense of Your Senses Week, he sniffs out top tips on ways of saving your sense of smell and taste. Mindfulness and relaxation therapy is the latest way the NHS is combatting stress - but it can take some getting used to. For the first time in his 87 years Carlton gets to experience a massage, and Fiona Phillips finds out about the health benefits of staying calm. Bill Turnbull meets the students who could be the saviours of social care.

Fiona meets the silver splitters - people who have divorced later in life - and finds out how to have as pain-free a divorce as possible, no matter how long you have been married. Dr Rangan Chatterjee continues his Making Sense of Our Senses week and explores why keeping in touch with your sense of touch could save your life. Nicki Chapman asks whether men should 'dress their age' when it comes to what not to wear. And Bill Turnbull is in Stockport, where he explores a test that tells you how long you have got to live.

How old is too old when it comes to parenthood? Nicki Chapman meets those who feel having kids later in life keeps them young. Dr Rangan Chattejee continues his Making Sense of Our Senses week with a close-up look into eyesight and finds out how to keep looking good. Bill Turnbull meets Lord Sugar's right-hand man Claude Littner, who thinks it is time businesses hired a whole new generation of workers taking up apprenticeships.

Nicki Chapman goes to a wonderful place that is helping people with dementia make new memories out of music. Dr Rangan Chatterjee ends his Making Sense of Our Senses week with a simple test to help you weigh up your own sense of balance. Vitamin D could be the secret to a long and sunny life - Ainsley Harriott shines a light on the subject. Fiona Phillips takes a look into a future in which robots look after people.

This episode comes from Brighton and meets the woman who had all her benefits cuts off when the council wrongly assumed that she, rather than her husband, had died. Dr Rangan looks at the rise of the granny annex and how it could put an end to loneliness in old age. And Fiona road-tests the marriage MOT which is designed for over 50s who are approaching retirement and want the state of their relationship looked at by a professional.

In this edition from Glasgow, Dr Rangan takes an in-depth look at the winter flu and asks if the country is better prepared this year than last. Fiona investigates the world of facial fitness, and there is advice on how to tackle fuel poverty.

This edition from Manchester meets the 101-year-old man who suffered a horrific burglary. The programme asks whether crime against seniors be made a hate crime, Dr Rangan examines if e-cigarettes should be available on the NHS, and Fiona investigates mattresses.

This edition comes Belfast and meets the woman who had to wait three hours to call 999 after falling because her mobile phone company had cut her off, Dr Rangan investigates the world of social prescriptions, and Fiona asks whether more public toilets are needed.

This edition comes Coventry and asks whether having an operation is a right, in light of the NHS moving towards rationing surgery for chronic conditions. The programme meets the OAP hoarders who are being threatened with eviction. And what lessons can be learned from Japan, the country with the longest life expectancy in the world.

By meeting remarkable members of the public and using fascinating archive footage, celebrities get to the bottom of key concerns related to ageing.