1972: The PENSIONER Who Drives his DAD to WORK | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

"If you think Frank Turner can lie in bed as long as he wants now that he's retired, you're wrong!"

Fyfe Robertson reports from the Volkswagen factory in Ramsgate, where 65 year-old maintenance engineer Frank Turner is retiring from the firm. Despite retiring, Frank will still have to get up each morning at 6:45am and drive to the factory - because his 93 year-old father "Old Pops" is still working at the plant, and has no intention of retiring...

Originally broadcast 12 January, 1972.





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