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Writer and publisher Diana Athill has turned 100 today.

In publishing for half a century, she edited great writers from Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac to Philip Roth and Molly Keane.

And then, in retirement, her own writing took off and she became immensely popular - especially when dealing with the question of old age.

She talked to Jim Naughtie about the thought of dying.

(DIANA ATHILL, Getty Images)