P
.
Welcome
to
the
programme
.
Today
,
I'm
joined
by
journalist
Adam
Clark
,
who
has
been
researching
current
theories
of
immortality
.
Am
I
right
in
thinking
that
scientists
are
currently
working
on
that
will
allow
people
to
live
for
ever
?
A
Yes
.
indeed
.
That's
exactly
right
.
And
some
scientists
believe
that
this
technology
Is
not
very
far
in
the
future
-
perhaps
less
than
30
years
away
-
although
there
is
still
a
lot
of
disagreement
about
that
.
But
basically
,
the
first
person
to
live
for
hundreds
,
possibly
thousands
,
of
years
could
already
be
alive
today
.
Perhaps
some
of
the
people
listening
now
will
live
for
thousands
of
years
.
It's
certainly
very
possible
.
P
What
it
possible
?
It's
never
been
possible
in
the
past
,
has
it
?
Although
people
have
often
talked
about
It
.
A
I
think
the
situation
now
is
really
different
from
at
any
time
in
the
past
.
New
medical
and
scientific
techniques
mean
that
it´s
becoming
possible
to
repair
the
human
body
.
Gradually
,
scientists
are
coming
to
why
our
bodies
deteriorate
with
age
-
what
happens
to
the
cells
in
our
bodies
-
and
they're
starting
to
find
ways
of
stopping
this
.
In
short
,
they're
finding
ways
to
stop
the
ageing
Process
.
P
It's
an
exciting
idea
,
isn't
it
?
A
Well
,
yes
and
no
!
Some
people
think
it's
very
worrying
idea
-
they
aren't
in
favour
of
it
at
all
.
P
Why
not
?
A
Well
,
they
argue
that
there
are
already
too
many
people
In
the
world
.
Our
planet
is
very
crowded
,
and
we're
finding
it
difficult
to
feed
all
of
them
already
.
So
,
imagine
a
situation
in
which
people
start
living
for
hundreds
of
years
.
They'll
be
alive
to
see
not
only
they're
grandchildren
,
but
their
great
-
great
-
great
-
great
-
grandchildren
too
.
You'll
have
nine
,
ten
or
more
generations
of
the
same
family
all
alive
at
the
same
time
.
Population
will
spiral
out
of
control
.
P
And
Christmas
will
be
a
nightmare
,
Absolutely
.
People
have
thought
about
this
problem
,
of
course
.
They
have
two
main
suggestions
for
dealing
with
it
.
Firstly
,
they
say
that
well
have
to
go
into
space
and
colonise
other
.
And
secondly
,
they
say
that
people
who
want
to
live
for
ever
,
they
have
to
agree
to
only
have
one
or
two
children
.
But
I'm
not
sure
that
these
suggestions
will
solve
the
problem
entirely
.
P
Are
there
any
other
disadvantages
to
the
idea
of
being
able
to
live
forever
,
A
Yes
,
perhaps
.
There
might
be
a
problem
with
motivation
.
Why
get
up
in
the
morning
,
if
we
know
that
there
will
be
thousands
of
other
mornings
just
the
same
?
In
fact
,
why
do
anything
today
if
we
got
a
thousand
years
in
which
to
do
it
P
.
.
A
Other
people
argue
that
it
would
be
pointless
to
live
forever
because
you
wouldn't
be
able
to
more
than
,
say
,
100
years
of
your
past
.
So
,
in
a
way
,
you
wouldn't
really
know
that
you'd
livend
longer
than
that
.
P
Your
past
would
be
like
another
Life
A
Yes
,
that's
right
.
And
there
are
other
possible
disadvantages
.
Some
people
believe
that
living
forever
would
completely
change
what
it
means
to
be
human
.
They
argue
that
out
time
Is
only
Important
to
us
-
that
,
hi
fact
,
is
only
important
-
because
we
know
it
won't
last
forever
.
So
if
we
know
that
we
were
going
to
live
forever
,
we
might
never
be
able
to
experience
the
most
powerful
human
emotions
,
like
falling
la
love
P
So
,
in
a
way
,
if
we
develop
technology
which
allow
us
to
become
immortal
,
we'd
stopped
being
completely
human
That's
right
.
You
could
argue
that
the
longer
somebody
lives
,
the
less
Interesting
life
for
that
person
.
P
Adam
,
thank
you
.
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