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Barbara Cartland

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1980 programme in which Fyfe Robertson meets novelist Barbara Cartland, who explains why, at the age of 78, she feels the need to keep working.

1980 series in which Fyfe Robertson investigates the lives of people who work on after their retirement age.

Barbara Cartland, 78-year-old prolific writer of romantic fiction must do things quickly to fit everything in. Her mother lived to be 98, which she feels was due to vitamin pills that Cartland also takes daily. She thinks her early journalistic experience helped to make her books readable, believes people want real romance and has just brought out album of love songs accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Thu 30 Oct 2008 22:25

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