Barbara Cartland Book 'Getting Older'
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Author Barbara Cartland discusses the ideas in her new book, 'Getting Older, Growing Younger'.
Barbara Cartland talks about the positive attitude to ageing presented in her new book 'Getting Older, Growing Younger'. She advocates staying physically fit, keeping an active brain, maintaining a youthful appearance, and keeping beauty and love in your life. She advises against boredom and 'beige' people.
Dame Barbara Cartland was one of the most commercially successful writers published worldwide during the 20th century. She was particularly celebrated as the author of over 700 romantic novels, many of them set in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and presenting her particular view of gender roles and relationships. She was also known to audiences through her non-fiction publications and magazine articles, television appearances and active social engagement. Her fondness for pink and elaborate dressing made her a distinctive figure, and her own life story was very different from the expectations for the characters in her novels.
Reporter Owen Spencer-Thomas interviewed Cartland at her home near Hatfield, Hertfordshire for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.
video made to be inserted during live broadcast of Anglia Television's early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. The live studio presentation provided context for the video as part of a news story or magazine feature within the programme. About Anglia was not recorded during broadcast, so it is usually just the pre-recorded programme inserts which survive. In the 1980s Anglia Television was broadcasting to a wide area in the East of England including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and adjoining parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland where there was some overlap with neighbouring ITV regions.