Different Kind of Adventure, A

Synopsis: Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of life as it is lived from 1 to 100.
Episode 7: " ... second childishness and mere oblivion ...". The cat-like tread of the over 80s; cheating the clock, arresting the hour-glass, ducking the scythe. The closing overs of a long test and the push towards a century, as achieved by the 100-year old Reverend Albert Humphrey.
Series: Seven Ages
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 26 Oct 1987 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC2)
Duration: 60 mins

Notes: Episode synopses are taken from Radio Times listings information.
Reviews: For more information about the production and the choice of people documented for each episode cf. John Mantle’s article "From the Cradle to the Grave" in Radio Times, 12-18 September 1987, p. 8

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