If you’ve started waking suddenly in the night with an acute and anxious awareness of the inevitability of death, you’re not alone. After experiencing this herself, journalist and author Jane Hutcheon discovered that it’s a common phenomenon for people in their late 50s and 60s. That’s when she realised she’d become a juvenile geriatric.

If there was an aesthetic that defined Australia’s rock/pop culture in the 80s then Reg Mombassa was surely a master crafter of it. His band Mental As Anything was heard on radio around the country and it seemed everyone wore a Mambo t-shirt featuring his darkly-comic art.

One of the biggest worries many of us have as we age relates to brain function. So what can neuroscience tell us about the ageing brain, can we improve brain function and is it different for men and women. Dr Sarah McKay is an author and neuroscientist and the creator of The Neuroscience Academy.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned making this podcast it’s that a lot of people prefer to avoid the topic of ageing. But Keryn Curtis has made a living out of it. She became fascinated with gerontology in her 40s and says it changed the way she views life. She also reveals the preferred word to describe people who've reached a certain age.

Is Tom Gleisner the most vilified person on Australian TV? He’s been making Australia laugh for decades with shows like Utopia, Front Line, Hollowmen, and D Generation, but as the host of Have You Been Paying Attention he fends off a barrage of ageist jibes every week, and he's only recently turned 60!

After the longest 'nana' nap ever, Ange and Ian are back in business. They've lined up a stack of great guests to chat to but, before they get started there's a lot to catch up on. Ange has been learning how to do backflips, and Ian has been thinking about exercise.