Growing Old Disgracefully

For other OAPs, retirement is a chance to behave like teenagers again. In Teenage Kicks, we meet Ricky the Biker who, despite having a heart condition and an anxious girlfriend, is intent on speeding on his motorbike along the Spanish Costa roads. Pensioner adrenalin addicts, Dennis and Sylvia Bloor, have spent £60,000 on riding rollercoasters around the world and enjoyed a trip on Alton Parks’ Nemesis ride 4,000 times. In Berkshire, 61-year old Jane loves fancy dress and, done up in her outlandish clothes and make-up to match, she goes clubbing with people a third her age. Wild child, Dee, is determined to live young and stay young in Tenerife, despite being in her 60s. She goes from sumo wrestling to paragliding – always watched over anxiously by long-suffering girlfriend, Eunice.