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World Service,30 Mar 2013,17 mins

Retirement

The Why Factor

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The idea of retirement is historically new. But with widespread demographic changes now meaning that many of us are expected to live into our eighties and beyond, how much sense does it make to stop people working when they reach their mid-sixties? Mike Williams looks at retirement asks how we might re-think this period of our lives. (Image of a carpenter working in his workshop. Credit AFP/Getty Images)

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