Tuesday Documentary

Getting On (1975x8)

Air date: Apr 15, 1975

Every week, in this country, more than 10,000 people reach retire, ment age. One week, seven years ago, five people - an engine-driver, a foreman, a box-maker, a lorry-driver and a welder - were filmed as they passed through this crisis point in their lives. It became a documentary called I Don't Know How I Found Time to Go to Work. Tonight's programme shows again some of their experiences as they celebrated their retirements and planned for the future: and now, seven years later, looks at what has happened to them and how they are getting on ... Cameramen PETER BARTLETT , BILL MATHEWS Film editor GEOFFREY BOTTERILL Producer STEPHEN PEET