<p>It's the cure-all wonder, a sure-fire panacea for all your ills, "and it's only a dollar, step right up, it's only a dollar, step right up..."<br>
Turmeric - or, as Joe Queenan would have it - snake oil. <br>
Sure, he's given it a try - but judging from this it's done nothing but make him gnarly.</p>

Joe Queenan has been around the block a time or two, and now finds himself in his seventies, ruminating on things he never thought would even affect him in ways he never would have predicted. By way of sharing the load he’s offering short insights into later life, stripped of the cliches and assumptions normally guaranteed when talk turns to ageing. They’re funny, they’re smart, and they’re blessedly brief - Joe’s not interested in wasting your time or his own.
Producer: Geoff Bird