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Dame Shirley Bassey, one of the most iconic voices in British music joins Jane to discuss 60 years in the music industry. To celebrate her Diamond Jubilee Dame Shirley is launching her new album, Hello Like Before.

Social campaigner and writer, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, author of Not Dead Yet: A Manifesto for Old Age joins Jane in the studio.

Elizabeth Bullivant ,aged 89, is a hydrangea specialist who used to open her garden 聽to the public. In 2012 she moved in with her daughter. Soon after she became very ill, so ill that everyone thought she would die. She defied expectations, moved from hospital into a nursing home, then came back to her family. Her granddaughter, Kate, talks to her.

Marie Dye, 89, is currently at home looking after her 93 year old husband, Roger. Roger recently spent a month in hospital, but he is now at home. Carers come in for half an hour three times a day.聽Marie also has three children who support her as much as they can, work and other responsibilities permitting.

Nicci Gerrard鈥檚 latest novel The Twilight Hour聽is about Eleanor Lee, an old, fiercely independent woman, living alone in her nineties. Jane talks to Nicci about why she chose to make her central character such an elderly woman.

The number of over-70s who hold a UK driving licence has exceeded four million for the first time. The perception is that elderly drivers pose the greatest threat, due to eyesight problems and dementia. Yet drivers under the age of 20 have more fatal accidents than drivers over 75. Jane Garvey talks to Ed Passant, from The Forum of Mobility Centres, about whether older drivers are more likely to cause accidents, what impact stopping driving has on a person and how best to broach the subject with an elderly relative.聽