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In this episode from September, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has recently won an Ig Nobel prize – given to scientific research that ‘first makes people laugh, and then makes them think’ – for his work showing that many claims of people living extraordinarily long lives come from places with short lifespans, no birth certificates, and where clerical errors and pension fraud abound
For more on ageing, listen to Science Weekly’s miniseries Secrets of Ageing
Episode 1: What makes me age?
Episode 2: How long could I live?
Episode 3: Making our last years count
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Revisited: are the world’s oldest people really that old? – podcast
