Don't grow old is a Horizon documentary the BBC aired in 2010.
In the programme, we are told about remarkable discoveries that suggest that ageing is something flexible and can be manipulated.
The documentary shows us the scientists who are attempting to demonstrate why we age and what we can do to prevent it. Does the 95-year-old 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 five-year-old boy with an extraordinary ageing disease or with a self-experimenting Harvard professor?
Could one of these breakthroughs really see our lives extend past 120 years?
You can read the transcript for the first ten minute of the programme here.
