Coming to Channel 4 next week, this film features some of the 1.2 million-strong ’secret workforce’ of people working past the retirement age in Britain. Compulsory retirement may be a thing of the past, but why are so many pensioners choosing to continue working?

Living longer on inadequate pensions mean that many have to work to pay the bills. But for others the story is more complicated. Cutting Edge examines the disparate characters and their reasons for working on into old age.

Monday 11 June 2007
10:00pm