On TV Next Week...

Coming up on TV next week:

• Britain on the brink: back to the 20s? - Panorama BBC1 8.30-9.00 pm, Monday 9th July. With Britain in its longest financial slump for decades, Adam Shaw investigates whether we can cope with a new age of austerity that might bring similar social and political upheaval to 1970s.
• Riots: the aftershock BBC3 9.00-10.00 pm, Monday 9th July. Gemma Cairney investigates how the riots in England last August changed the lives of those involved. Over nine months, cameras follow thre people who were arrested, as well as several victims of violent disturbances.
• The town that never retired (1/2) BBC1 9.00-10.00 pm, Wednesday 11th July.  In the first on two programmes (the second episode is at 9pm on Thursday 12th July) The Apprentice's Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford head up an experiment in Preston to see if men and women in their 70s can still cut it in the modern workplace. With life expectancy in the UK rising and the pension pot tight, the government is looking to raise the retirement age to reflect this societal change - and some would claim economic necessity. Part of the BBC's ageing season.
• June Brown: Respect your elders BBC1 10.35-11.25 pm, Thursday 12th July. Veteran Eastenders star, June Brown talks to older people about their varied experiences in the care system, including her former on-screen husband John Bardon, who had a stroke five years ago and now needs 24 hour care.