Dont Grow Old, BBC Documentary, Horizon

Series exploring topical scientific issues. For centuries scientists have been attempting to come up with an elixir of youth. Now remarkable discoveries are suggesting that ageing is something flexible that can ultimately be manipulated. Horizon meets the scientists who are attempting to piece together why we age and more vitally for all of us, what we can do to prevent it. But which theory will prevail Does the 95yearold woman who smokes two packets of cigarettes a day hold the clue Do blueberries really delay signs of ageing or is it more a question of attitude Does the real key to controlling how we age lie with a fiveyearold boy with an extraordinary ageing disease or with a selfexperimenting Harvard professor Could one of these breakthroughs really see our lives extend past 120 years