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1972: Living on the State Pension | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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27:59Now PlayingMan Alive's Jeanne La Chard looks at life on the Pension.
In future a single pensioner will live on £6.75 a week - and married couples on £10.90. Is money all that is needed? The old face problems which the rest of us, too often, push to one side - while we live in the Welfare State that their generation built.
In almost every other country they are respected as 'senior citizens.' Here they are, usually, just 'the old' and often made to feel a nuisance. Jeanne asks them about how they make ends meet, what they spend their money on, and what they would splash out on if money was no object.
Clip taken from Man Alive: The Pension, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 19 April, 1972.
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