"MOTORBIKE HORN BEEPS" "India." "A country bursting with colour and beauty." "I don't have words for that." "With year-round warm weather, and a low cost of living could it be the perfect place to retire?" "I would love it, a different way of life where money might last longer, and a wonderful climate." "I want to have a comfortable old age." "BOBBY GEORGE:" "Let's go somewhere and live like kings." "Your Majesty." "Inspired by the film, eight well known pensioners are going on a real life adventure in the city of Jaipur." "JANU:" "Welcome to Jaipur." " I'm in!" "My bum is in." "And they've setup a unique retirement home in the heart of the old city." "ls this the way to the market though?" " I don't know." "We could give it a go." "Hello!" "After trying to fend for themselves..." "It's banging around!" "Oh my giddy aunt!" "They've hired staff and begun to explore the local area." "There wouldn't be enough years of retirement to take it all in." "JAN LEEMING:" "Oh, WOW!" " ROY WALKER:" "Unbelievable!" "But will they navigate the challenges India poses?" "Blimey!" "This is exhausting." "And find somewhere new to call home on the other side of the world?" "MIRIAM MARGOLYES:" "You can't avoid loving this place." "Magical." "ATUL:" "Very good morning, everybody!" " EVERYBODY:" "Good morning!" "ATUL:" "Oh you look, all of you look so good this morning!" "Close your eyes." "Let go of all your desires." "And see what wonders it does to your body." "It's the second week of living together in the haveli and the group have begun to embrace the local way of life." "Wayne, Roy, Sylvester and Patti are up early for their yoga lesson with instructor Atul." "Breathing through the nose." "You, you breathe in through the mouth." "Blow out your cheeks and straighten your mouth." "Breathe out of the nose." "Atul's yoga is specially designed for senior citizens and it's more than just exercise, focusing on meditation and mental well-being." "WAYNE SLEEP:" "I'm definitely going to start yoga classes and meditation." "Those are two very important things in my life now." "ATUL:" "Take your hands up." "Just brought us into like a sanctuary of peace and happiness." "ATUL:" "You'll feel calmness." "But not everyone has been converted to the benefits of yoga." "I really like a fan." "I really like a fan." "I just love that blowy feeling." "And when you fart it sort of blows it away really quickly so nobody, nobody sort of almost notices." "If you're a slightly windy person, like I am." " JAN LAUGHS" "I love the strangeness of India." "The fact that it's a completely different culture." "The unexpected things that happen here the imminence of shitting myself, you know." "And Miriam isn't the only one suffering,." "ROSEMARY SHRAGER:" "I've still got the squits." "Er, you know, we all have squits, I think everybodys suffering." "But the only thing is I'm just trying, I need to stay around the room for maybe a little longer." "It's part and parcel of India, my dear." "Okay, I've gotta go again, I'm sorry." "HORNS BEEP" "BOBBY GEORGE:" "The thing I like about India, everyone's busy." "Everyone's going somewhere to get something" "They're like ants, every, they're all everywhere." "WAYNE:" "I don't know how they have so much strength, I mean they're older than we are." "WAYNE LAUGHS in Jaipur, even the most essential day-to-day activities are done away from the family home." "Ooh!" "For even something as everyday as a shave, most local men go to a barber's." "Ooh, dear, oh dear, oh dear." "No, ooh, gawd blimey!" "HE LAUGHS" "This'll upset your bowels, won't it?" "HE LAUGHS" " Oh, dear." "Wayne and Bobby have been recommended one by their hosts where a shave and a haircut costs under a pound." "WAYNE:" "Wait for me!" "Come on, son." "The rise, the risers are a bit high, so you have to be careful." "Okay." "How do you do?" "BOBBY:" "A shave, and be, be, be nice to me." "Have you ever cut anyone?" "Have ya?" "Ne', ' No!" "'" "Never out no one?" "Keep that up, son." "WAYNE:" "How many a day does he do?" "MAN:" "Going to be, er, 60 or 70." "60 or 70!" "So nobody shaves at home?" "No." "No." " With electric?" "No." "WAYNE:" "Everybody comes here?" " MAN:" "Comes here, yeah." "Ah!" "Was it gentle?" "You didn't feel anything?" " BOBBY:" "Yeah." "No, he's very gentle." " Oh good, alright then." "Makes me ears look big now I've had a good shave." "HE LAUGHS" "WAYNE:" "Well, that's what happens, doesn't it?" "BOBBY:" "Yeah, it's er..." " Look at mine!" "BOBBY:" "Yeah." "It's harder for us, don't you think, to stay young-looking when we're this age?" "Not for me." " Not for you, darling, you've got a baby face, haven't you?" "HE LAUGHS" "BOBBY:" "Don't get old in your head." "If you never had a mirror you wouldn't get old cos you can't see yourself, can ya?" "So I've took all the mirrors out the house." "No, I ain't really." "I've got hair growing everywhere else but on my head as I get older." "Down my nose, out of my ears... it's terrible." " BOBBY:" "Yeah." "As I get older I've realised it's inevitable." "It's going to happen, whether you like it or not." "So why worry about it?" "Have you found since you've been here that the arthritis has been helped by the heat?" "BOBBY:" "I think it helps me, yeah." " Yeah?" "Yeah, when it's raining and cold you feel it more." " WAYNE:" "Yeah, yeah." "For my old bones, that have been doing dancing all these years..." " Yeah, cos you..." "I feel... my muscles feel softer already..." "BOBBY:" "Yeah, cos of the heat." "Yeah." " WAYNE: just within a few days." "Namaste." "Oh!" "Sorry!" "HE LAUGHS" "Miriam and Patti are venturing out, too." "They need to get some laundry done." "You're all ready?" " I've got some ironing and washing." "Most middle-class families don't do their own washing so host Sushma is taking them to see the lady who does the laundry for all the locals." "She has been, er, doing our ironing and washing for at least four generations." "PATTI BOULAYE:" "Oh my goodness!" "MIRIAM:" "Hello, hello!" "Namaste!" " Namaste!" "Her name is Durgar." " Durgar." "SUSHMA INTRODUCES THE LADIES" " My name is Miriam." "Huh, come!" "Come!" " PATTI:" "After you." "MIRIAM:" "Okay." " I'll show you the place where she does the washing." "Okay." " Do you need a hand?" "MIRIAM:" "Yeah." "There we are, I'm in." " Yes!" "MIRIAM:" "I'm in." "That's her family." "Dobanji's whole family are employed in her laundry business." "Her relatives, er, her husband's, er, three brothers, they live in the house." "Each one of them has a place here and they have floors on top..." "MIRIAM:" "Ah!" "  where they live." "PATTI:" "Okay." " SUSHMA:" "And er..." "DURGAR SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE" "SUSHMA:" "Their older son." "PATTI:" "Oh, that's the oldest son?" " SUSHMA:" "He, he is the oldest son." "PATTI:" "Beautiful wife." "Beautiful!" "And so that's the younger son and younger daughter-in-law." "PATTI:" "Does, why has she got her hair co..." "her face covered?" "ls it..." "Because, because, as a mark of respect." "What's the respect?" "ls it towards her mother, her mother-in-law or towards you?" "Or towards us?" " It's towards all elderly people." "I was born in Nigeria, in West Africa, and we, we don't, there we... you can't look an elderly person in the eyes when they're talking to you." "People always tell me I should cover my face." "PATTI LAUGHS" " I don't think it's for that reason." "No." "Oh!" " THEY LAUGH" "India has grown on me completely." "I mean I, I..." "Because India is so much the tradition of respecting the elders so I feel totally at home here." "I feel, I feel like I'm in Africa, but with a different language." "MIRIAM:" "I'm beginning to understand the ways of life here." "Bye-bye." "MIRIAM:" "But within the family I think there is great love and that's a really nice thing to see." "I don't have a family, you know, my parents are dead" "I have just my partner, and we don't have children." "So I'm rather a solitary person and I'm not sure how a solitary person would fare in this country." "Living together may be cost-effective, but some aren't adjusting to it that well." "JAN:" "Fitting into the group has been difficult." "So many of them are larger than life." "I just, I just find that a bit difficult because I mean I'm insecure in many ways, um... but I think sometimes people hide their insecurity by sort of shouting louder than the next person." "MIRIAM:" "We're gonna have to look after..." " Jan." " Jan, because she's fragile." "Yes." "I know." "She's fragile." " And she's out of her own environment." "I think she finds it harder than we do, probably." "Yeah." " Do you think that?" "I do think that." " Yeah, yeah." "Back home in Kent, Jan has lived on her own for the last 12 years." "I didn't think at my age that I would be living on my own with a cat." "I am not lonely." "I am happy." "My happiness could be added to." "Hello again, Janu." "Hi." "How are you?" " Hey, I'm really excited about this!" "Thank you, I'm very well." "Jan has asked Janu, the haveli driver, to take her to see someone who could help." "I'll tell you something, there's no way I would ever drive in Jaipur." "Yes, it's crazy." " I wouldn't even drive in London anymore." "In India, many Hindus use psychic gurus to see what their future has in store and Janu has recommended one for Jan to visit." "JAN:" "I do believe in astrology." "Now let's face it, people only go to an astrologer if they've got a problem, either love, money, work." "You don't go to an astrologer when you're happy." "Actually I am happy." "JANU:" "Before you go I want to make sure that you're brave enough because you go there to hear the truth." "Oh my goodness!" "You go, you go there to hear the truth." " Yeah, okay." "So you make sure you are happy to go there." "Ja, Janu, can we go back?" " JANU LAUGHS" "Good luck." " Thank you." "Is it, it's in there?" "Ajay Shrivasto does readings for those seeking enlightenment at the back of his jewellery shop,." "JAN:" "Namaste." "I have an appointment with the guru." "Is it alright to go in?" " MAN:" "Yes." "Thank you." "Namaste." "Namaste." "AJAY SHRIVASTO:" "Namaste." " Namaste." "Have a seat, please." " Thank you." "PHONE RINGS" "We have only five minute because I have yoga class." "Oh, right." "Give me your hand for a second." " Which'?" "The guru doesn't charge anything for his services." "He believes he has a gift which should be available to anyone who needs his help." "So go ahead, what do you want to know?" "I have lived on my own a very long time." " Mm hmm." "But relationship has always been a problem with you because you have a massive problem with expression and communication." "So like relationship and fall in love and then things fall apart, so like with a man it's always been like this." "At least six men in your life, same thing is happening." "You're amazing." "You're absolutely right." " How many children you got?" "One." "A son." "How old he is?" " 34." "But basically thing that you need to do:" "focus, concentration and self-loving." "There's a creativity and things like inside you but still you haven't found the peace of mind." "I haven't." "And you're quite right about relationships." "But having been on my own for 12 years, I've got used to it." "Er, it was very difficult originally." "Um, I would love to be, I would love to have a companion but my track record would put men off." "If God or whoever says no, I am okay on my own, but I would be much happier..." "You're saying you, you're okay, but I'm disagree with you." "You're very lonely and my suggestion for you, you still need to be very careful with depression." "Whatever you are, howsoever you are, expression is very important." "Second thing, as you're getting older you need to be very careful with your short term memory." "With my short term..." " Short term memory." "Oh!" "My mother..." "Symptom of dementia." "Yes, she did." "Ah." "Because both my grandmothers died of cancer." "Bowel cancer." " Yes, they did." "PHONE RINGS" "Thank you so much." " Welcome." "Take good care." "Thank you." "Hopefully it's useful." "Whoa." "He's good." "He's good." "That man definitely has an energy, I could feel it coming into my hand." "He shocked me when he said six relationships." "I mean he doesn't know me from a bar of soap." "My life has been totally messed up with men." "SHE LAUGHS" "CAR ENGINE STARTS" "How are you?" "He's amazing." " Yes." "Okay." "JAN:" "I'll tell you what, even if I had wanted to hide anything from him, I couldn't." "I mean how could he know..." " JANU:" "I told you before you come." "TEACHER:" "Bar, that's for long aah sound." "Up, car..." "Back at the haveli, some of the group are trying to learn some basic Hindi." "How would you say to somebody when you meet someone, saying what is your name?" "Jan has decided to join the group for the lesson." "WAYNE:" "Aapka naam kya hai." "TEACHER:" "Okay, so maybe you can have a little conversation between the two of you." "Oh, god." "TEACHER:" "Yes, so..." " WAYNE:" "Oh." " JAN:" "Um..." "PATTI STARTS SPEAKING" "JAN:" "Wait a minute, wait a min, wait a minute." " ALL:" "Aapka naam." "What is sleep in er...?" "TEACHER:" "Sleeping?" " Yeah, sleep." "Sena." " Sena." "Mara naam Sena hai." "I'm falling asleep, sorry." "SHE LAUGHS" " I'm so tired." "PATTI:" "You were in the sun." " I hope it's not the Hindi lesson that's..." "MIRIAM:" "No, no, no." "  working as a lullaby for you." "It's, it's concentrating when I'm tried." " TEACHER LAUGHS" "No, I was just going to say with our not very good accents, will they understand us?" "Absolutely, they will." "They will." " Even if..." "Because the context in which you're talking they know what you are actually wanting them to say." "I've got to keep this active." "You know it's absolutely true, if you don't use it, you lose it." "And I will be making notes because I don't remember." "I had a very good memory when I was young, not quite photographic but very, very good." "How would you say, would you like to make a date?" "TEACHER LAUGHS" " Okay, in India you would not say that." "I want to be your sort of chaperone." "You're gonna my chaperone!" "I want to get you a rich Indian." " JAN LAUGHS" "ROSEMARY:" "Oh, that would be, she would have a, yes, you!" "That would be perfect for her, a rich Indian." " I don't want a rich..." "What do you want?" "I know this sounds awful, but I mean do, do people chat each other up or is it unheard of to sort of like come on, like flirt?" " JAN:" "Flirt?" "Do they flirt?" "Um..." " WAYNE:" "Not really, no?" "Actually in Jaipur we still have a lot of, um, what we call the respect in the eyes, you know." "So if you see somebody you like it would all be in the face, Jan, would it?" "Sort of like looking at somebody like that." " ROSEMARY:" "I think that's lovely..." "WAYNE:" "So you look at me and I go..." " ROSEMARY:" "That's beautiful, isn't it?" "I like that." "And I go..." " WAYNE LAUGHS" "My life is quite fulfilling." "It, there's room in it for, for somebody but unfortunately and I'm not saying anything that most women don't think most men want a much younger woman, and look at me and the age I am now." "ATUL:" "Breathe in." "Very gentle dropping, dropping the head back." "It's 8am and the group's morning routine has already started." "ATUL:" "And that will reduce pressure on the heart by 33%." "Yoga's been practised for 5,000 years in India and it's part of the rhythm of life." "ATUL:" "Again at the nose tip, one two..." "If you do it daily, you will be cured of your short-sightedness and long-sightedness." "You won't need glasses." "Okay, let's start it again, sir." "Sir, you also need to take your neck back..." "But Rosemary's finding it tough." "Would you excuse me cos I'm going to have to go, I've got to go and do something" "So excuse me, I need this as much as everybody but I need to go and move on, so I'm sorry." "ATUL:" "Don't worry, don't worry." "ROSEMARY:" "That has taught me the most enormous lesson, I am really unfit." "Everything was hurting..." " SHE LAUGHS which is embarrassing because it shouldn't have done because they were so gentle." "ATUL:" "And sing Hari Om!" "Hari Om!" "THEY CONTINUE TO CHANT" "Seriously, I'm actually quite shocked how bad I am because I'm ten years younger than all of these here and um, I mean I think I've, you know, I'm reason, I am fit, but I'm not." "I mean cos I don't stretch and I don't do any exercise really." "I think this is just so..." "In fact I do none, no exercise at all." "JAN:" "She said that um, when she goes to..." " Lovely jubbly!" "MIRIAM:" "I take a pill for my blood pressure." "Because my mother had a stroke, she died from, from that that's what I take it for, in order to avoid, try to avoid a stroke." "If you read in my obituary that I died of a stroke you'll say 'Oh poor sod, it didn't work!" "'" "THEY LAUGH" "I don't think it's morbid to think about, er, the autumn of life or, or, or even the winter." "I mean here we are." "I'm lucky to have survived this, this long." "I'm amazed the neighbours have let me." "I'm old and I didn't expect to be." "I didn't expect to have to climb the stairs one at a time." "Are you coming to the hospital, Bobby?" " BOBBY:" "Mmm." "I've got to be there at one." "India has some of the best and cheapest medical care in the world." "Some of the group have existing health concerns so they've booked into a local hospital for a full medical check-up." "So, I'm not sure at the hospital, whether we're going to um, you know, have to strip down or have a blood test or any of that kind of stuff." "Um, well not blood test, I think pressure." "Um, high pressure, low pressure, the heart." "Miriam was recently told that she needed an operation." "MIRIAM:" "I've developed arthritis." "It means that I don't walk very well and I'm going to have a knee replacement operation." "I'm not ready to slow down." "If I have to walk more slowly then I will, but I want to walk just as far." "And there are little scooters that you can go on, they're ever such fun." "You can knock down all kinds of people like that." "That's it!" "I've got me little stool." "India's become a mecca for health tourism with around a quarter of a million people flying here each year to take advantage of the cheap private medical treatment." "I would very much be interested in finding out about what it would cost to have an operation in India and who would do it and how good they are." "Because I just want the best, you know, this is my life." "I wanna see, check me heart." "That's the most important thing to me." "Yeah." "And me blood pressure and um, how long I'm gonna live." "SYLVESTER LAUGHS" "We're looking for... well, not labour and delivery, I think I'm past that one." "Um, intensive... health check!" "There we go, straight ahead." "Straight ahead, health check." "India does have a public health system, but access to it is so poor going private is the only option for the middle classes." "MIRIAM:" "I feel so sweaty, it's embarrassing." " I know, I know, it is, I'm..." "I hate being sweaty when people, if they have to touch me..." " Do you...?" "I don't know whether they're gonna touch me." "They may take one look at me and say urgh." "I hope he doesn't have to touch me, full stop." "Ooh, I was hoping for an internal examination!" "ROSEMARY LAUGHS" " Wash your mouth out, Miriam." "Oh, I love it!" "I love it!" "164 in height, very good." "I've shrunk." "The most comprehensive health check covering everything from blood tests to bone scans, cost just £130." "SHE WHEEZES" "In the UK, the same tests done privately would cost over £1,600." "You stay there." "HE WEES" "MIRIAM:" "My mother had strokes and that's what I'm trying to avoid, of course." "It's 118 by 80." "So it's absolutely normal." "The pills are working." " THEY LAUGH" "Um..." " Yes." "Could I ask how long it takes to get a knee operation." "It's five to seven days, that's it." "Five to seven days?" " Yeah." "Because I have to tell you, in England..." " Mm hmm." "It could be up to four months." "No!" " And that that would cost, er, the knee replacement?" "Er, around £3,000 for a single and £5,000 for both the knees." "So you get a discount if you get both knees done!" "THEY LAUGH" "Back at home, a knee replacement done privately would cost around £11,000." "Thank you very much." "I'm impressed by this hospital." "I would not be worried if I got sick and that is a very important area for people of my age." "You worry about healthcare." "Well, I wouldn't worry, being here." "At our age, this is, the most important thing, is your body cos things start breaking down and falling to pieces so you got a good hospital it's relaxing, ain't it?" "This what you're doing now?" "DOCTOR:" "Yeah." " Yeah, I've had it done before, yeah." "And the thing down me throat as well, with liquid." "Bobby's very familiar with the inside oi a hospital." "I wore me body out working, I suppose." "People think I just threw darts." "I used to dig tunnels." "I used to lay granite floors." "Just overdone it, wore me body out." "You look so serious." "You're taking the blood outta me, I'm not taking it outta you." "THEY LAUGH" "I had metal knees, metal hip." "Alright, I broke me back in the World Championship." "I jumped up and I come down wrong and I snapped me back." "After just five hours the test results start to arrive." "ls er, my general health good?" "Well, it's very good." " Yeah." "Yes." " Heart?" "More or less seems okay." "Okay, for my age?" " For your age, yes." "ROSEMARY:" "Was everything alright, Bobby?" "Yeah, everything." "I'm perfect." " Brilliant." "What about your heart?" "Perfect." "My heart is very strong." " Oh, fantastic!" "Slow." "He said am I an athlete?" " Still slow." "You are." " I said yeah." "No, you are an athlete, an athlete who needs to lose weight, that's all." "Oh, thank you, Doctor." "ROSEMARY:" "Yeah, yeah!" " THEY LAUGH" "Well, you could say the same to me." "I gotta lose a couple of stone cos I'm quite heavy, I don't look heavy, but I'm quite heavy." "It's, it's the drink, it's the beer- you put the weight on with the beer." "Well, if I'm playing darts I drink a fair, a fair amount, probably six, seven pints, eight pints a night." "Miriam has received her results and they're not quite what she was expecting." "The doctor I saw was an orthopaedic surgeon and he confirmed, looking at the x-rays of my knees that I do need a knee replacement, probably on both knees, which I didn't know but certainly on my right knee, which I did know." "And he also said that I've got lots of little gallstones so I'm facing a minimum of two operations in the next year, which is quite a heavy thing at my age." "So I better start taking care of myself." "As far as I'm concerned, health is the only thing that is important in life." "If you've got your health, you can do anything." "I'm looking for Mrs Rosemary." "MIRIAM:" "Rosemary, your doctor's calling you." " Excuse, excuse me." "Rosemary is the last to be seen." "I'm so sorry." " Hi." " Oh, hello!" "An obesity specialist has arrived to give her the results." "So when we talk about er, the ideal weight which anybody should have..." " ROSEMARY:" "Yes." "So, so the basic thumb rule is that height in centimetres minus a hundred." "And your BMI is coming out to 49.4." " Yes, okay." "So that comes into morbid obesity." "My job is to tell, er, how important it is for you to lose weight." "Yes." "I know, mm." " Number one." "Drugs are, are secondary things." "The primary thing is a lifestyle management." " Yes." "Yes." "ROSEMARY:" "Nobody likes to be told they are morbidly obese." "It's been spelled out to me which it's never been done before in such a way." "I can tell you a few tricks." "And, and it's, it is a shock and it does, it... it doesn't, it does frighten me, obviously, because you know, I need to do something about it and obviously I don't want to, and it's, I find it very upsetting" "and if I think about it too long I will get very upset." "So I think I've got to do what I normally do in my life, is be strong and do something about it." "We got back from the hospital terribly late because we'd really been, um, investigated from arsehole to, um, to hair follicle, you know." " WAYNE LAUGHS" "I felt, I felt really nervous a couple of times." "WAYNE:" "Did you?" "In case it turned out to be..." " MIRIAM:" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Cos..." " WAYNE: ...you were at death's door or something." "Well, we are at that age." " WAYNE:" "Well, yeah." "We are at death..." "we're in death's back passage." "THEY LAUGH" "It's close." "I mean you can't help thinking about it." "I think about it a lot." "Hello, pig!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "I'll have him for my dinner." "SHE LAUGHS" "I think he, I think he's frightened of me." "As part of her new health regime." "Rosemary ls already up and out for a walk." "I've sort of thought about it during the evening and I decided, well, I might as well start straight away." "I have tried every single diet in the world, virtually." "Well, not quite, but I've done a lot of things." "Once I fail, I give up and I'm lazy." "It's actually so straightforward but it's just having the strength to get through it." "As well as state-of-the-art medicine, Indians also rely heavily on ancient Ayurvedic practices." "During her time in Jaipur, Rosemary has become a convert." "I've got real issues, my, my back is, is, is an ongoing thing and it is important that I find somewhere where I can maybe get my back sorted out when it does happen." "So, one is to sort the weight out as well, cos that doesn't help my back." "They're using a reservoir made from flour and water, filled with hot herbal oil, to ease Rosemary's back pain." "It is weird, but it's, I mean I have never seen this in Britain and I tell you if I was to come and retire here, this would certainly be part of my regime." "Since she arrived in India, Jan has suffered from headaches and, on Rosemary's advice has also booked some alternative therapy." "ROSEMARY:" "Hello!" "Ooh, hello!" " How are you?" "You didn't see me!" "I can't have those." "I have low blood pressure, so they're not allowed." " Oh, okay." "Rosemary has moved on to a steam box treatment." "ROSEMARY:" "The people are lovely, aren't they?" "They're so warm and affectionate." "Gentle." "I think you should find a nice Indian, educated man." "Rosemary!" "I've had enough of men!" "Have you?" " Mmm." "You are such a glamorous person." "Oh, rubbish!" "But you are!" "Jan!" " I'm not!" "Jan, accept what I'm saying, you are!" "I've lived on my own for 12 years." "I've got used to it." "Yes, I am lonely at times." "I would have loved to have had a big family." " Yeah." "I always most enjoyed at Christmas when I'd have up to 12 people." "And now, Christmas, well, it's just another day." "Well, I mustn't let you have that, if that's the case." "Don't you dare be on your own at Christmas." "On a sunny weekend, when I can look out of my window and I see the families walking along by the beach and I see couples hand-in-hand and I think, oh" "I haven't even got anybody I can go out for a drink with." "If somebody came into my life who was right, that would be absolutely wonderful." "But I don't think I could live 24/7 with anybody anymore." " Yeah." "Spend weekends together, go on holiday." "You see, I don't go on holiday cos I've no one to go on holiday with." "But, as someone once said to me, better first class loneliness than second class company." "ROSEMARY:" "I think companionship is very, very important." "Are you on your own, Rosemary?" " Yes, I am." "I've lived on my own for 20 years." " Oh." "But I've been separa..." "I'm still married, I still have a lovely husband, but we just..." " Oh, oh!" "We don't live together." " Well, that's weird." "And, no it's not weird at all." "Um, circumstances." "Would have been very difficult for him to have been with me at that moment when we lost everything." "So I had to just get on." " Oh, you lost everything?" "I had to get on, yeah." " What was that?" "No, it was just, it was the recession." " Oh." "And we lost in, in the property, we had properties, we had all sorts of things, yes." "Mm." " Cos he needs somebody to help him and things and, so for me, um, it's easier anyway for us to be the way we've been." "Do you see your husband?" " Oh, yes, I do." "Oh right, so you don't need anyone?" "Well, I'm very, the thing is, Jan, I, I work." "I work all the, I work all the time." "You're a workaholic." " I work at weekends." "I work every weekend you can imagine." "Actually doing something, it stops one thinking about one's self really." "ROSEMARY:" "It has been lonely along the way." "There are times when I've had something, a bad day and you'd love to just talk to someone about it and there's no one to talk to." "And that is difficult." "I look dead." "I need lipstick." "I need lipstick." "Tonight, the group are hoping to make some new local friends on a night out." "I think all of us are going to the, um, Palladio Club, which I think is the club for, um, expats." "We've been here about a week and we're all excited and we like what we've seen." "Well, I'm excited and I like what I've seen, but I need to get the truth really." "It's going to be very, very interesting, I'd like to take a notepad with me, but it might look a bit..." "I can't remember things anymore." "What about this?" "Too much?" "Well, well, it might, well depends how warm you're gonna be." "Well, no, but I mean does it look too much with all this white?" "Or shall I put my dark blue..." " Well, it breaks the white up, actually." "Or shall I wear my black trousers with the black waistcoat?" "Bar Palladio is a popular meeting spot for western expats." "Many of the clientele have lived in Jaipur for years." "Wow!" "Look at this place!" "OPHELIA:" "Hi, I'm Ophelia." "Ophelia." "And you're from here or you're from"?" "Originally from France." "Oh, wonderful!" " That's why I have this terrible accent." "Bonsoir!" " Bonsoir!" "This is Roy." "Hi, Roy." " Bonsoir, madame." "Very strong handshake." " Nice to meet you, bonsoir." "So what do you do here?" " Jewellery, I'm a jewellery designer." "Ugh!" " Yes!" "Have you met Patti Boulaye?" "I haven't!" " PATTI:" "Hello!" "Are you partners?" " No, no." "One has to ask these days." " Yes, yes, yes." "Exactly." " See, this is the part I need to find..." "Yes." " before I go home." "Yes, exactly." " Cos I've gotta bring..." "I'm gay" "Right." " ...and I've gotta bring my partner back." "I've been talking to friends about the homosexuality in India and they say 'Be careful.'" "Homosexuality in India was made legal in 2009 but the High Court overturned the decision and made it illegal once again a few years later." "I'm Wayne." " Wayne, I'm Will." "Wayne and Will." " Do you, do you know Wayne possibly?" "No." " No, they probably don't..." " Wayne is a very..." "Oh, stop it!" " Shut up!" "A very, very famous ballet dancer and, and he will..." " And the smallest you've ever met." "I'm interested to see if and how a gay community works." "If a gay community is there, first of all." "She certainly did." "You know, what can I do, I am gay, you know." "And I don't think it's unnoticeable because I have a little frill, I do drop my wrists occasionally." "Like I can eat it every day." " Do you like it really hot?" "Yeah, yeah." " So do I." "I love." " Oh, are we talking about the food still?" "Oooh!" "Wayne has met Events Organiser, Will, who has lived in India for four years and is openly gay amongst his friends." "WAYNE:" "If I thought of moving here with my husband what kind of animosity would I expect if two men were living in one house?" "There's really very little homophobia." "Um, so it's like a safe, it's a safe place but it's just it's like a taboo subject." "So..." "It's a what?" " A taboo subject." "Oh, taboo." " So you just don't really talk about it that often." "You have to like learn in which situations you can be gay in which situations where you're just kind of quiet about it in which situations you feel comfortable." "It still is collectively in the closet, certainly." " It's still in the closet." "When something is really nice we say lovely jubbly." "OPHELIA:" "Jubbly." "Lovely jubbly." "You say that." "OPHELIA:" "Lovely jubbly." " That's it, okay." "Yeah, I think it could be great." "I mean it'd be much nicer to retire here than somewhere like Eastbourne." "THEY LAUGH" "Jan has the chance to find out from fellow Brit, Emma about what life is like for single women in Jaipur." "I've been living out here on my own for the last five years, yes." "That's why I asked..." " Yes, yes." "Is it, it's possible..." " Yes, no, of course, yes absolutely." "I mean I have my own apartment within the family house so it's quite nice because I have my own space that's completely private." "I would need that." " But then I open the door and the family's there kind of thing, so..." "And that would suit me because I've lived on my own for so long now." "Yes." " I love people but I want my own space." "Space, yes, yes." " That would be wonderful." "And if they take you into their heart, they completely take you and they'd do anything for you, anything." "In England, I live on my own and frankly, if I died, it would be several days before anybody would know." "Well, no, here, I mean really people would know here and they'd really look out for you." "Hearing about the support available for single women has opened Jan's eyes to new possibilities." "JAN:" "I come from a very small family and now there's only my son in Sydney." "So, maybe I'll just have to adopt and adapt to an Indian family, if they'll take me in." "It makes me feel I want to come." "It's 7:30am at Jaipur Junction Railway Station,." "Although the group have travelled all over the city today is their chance to test out long-distance travel." "They're heading off to see the jewel in India's crown." "I think we have to go over here." "SYLVESTER MCCOY:" "India has got thousands and thousands of years of culture." "They were more advanced than we were and that would be a very exciting thing to go and see." "The group are making the 150-mile journey east, to the state of Utter Pradesh to see one of the Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal." "I don't quite get this, um..." "WAYNE:" "15." "Yeah, we want the 9 o'clock." "ROSEMARY:" "9 o'clock." "Making the four hour journey by train are Rosemary, Wayne, Miriam, Sylvester and Bobby." "I'm bloody sure it's Platform One." "It's either one or two." "ROSEMARY:" "One or the other." " MIRIAM:" "Come on, let's go to Platform One." "MIRIAM:" "I love to go on trains and buses." "I don't like air-conditioned chauffeured limousines." "That's not what I'm used to and I don't want that." "The station deals with 35,000 passengers a day and is the busiest in Rajasthan." "I won't go on top of the train, no, I think that's dodgy it's a bit dodgy." "But I would like to go on the train and see what it's like to see how the people travel." "ROSEMARY:" "Excuse me, do you speak English?" "Sorry?" " Do you speak English?" "No." " Okay." "With trains passing through the station heading to 50 different destinations every hour they need to make sure they get on the right one." "ls this going to Agra?" "Agra." " ls this going Agra?" "Agra?" " No, no." "No." " Delhi." "Delhi." "Delhi, not Agra." "Not Agra?" " No." "No Agra." "Okay, thank you." "WAYNE:" "The train..." " ROSEMARY:" "The train." "We're going to Agra." "Agra." " HE SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE" "Will you show us?" "Come with us." " Yes." "Come with us." "Come, come and show us the way." "That's brilliant." "Where's Miriam?" "I don't wanna lose Miriam." "I'm just waiting for you." "Everybody, I've got a guide." "Is this our train?" " No." "Oh no, no, no." "This is not it." " No." "Not it." " After this." "Okay." "Our train is after this." "WAYNE:" "Next one." " ROSEMARY:" "Next one." "Blimey!" "This is exhausting." "Maybe we should have gone by car." " Pfft!" "PATTI:" "Well, we're on our way!" "Hooray!" "JAN:" "Only an hour late!" "Only an hour late." "Roy, Jan and Patti have chosen the five-hour road trip to the Taj." "PATTI:" "I want a car with a driver." "I'm not going on buses." "I have experienced that in Lagos and I'm not about to do that in India." "Not at my age." "They're being driven by haveli driver, Janu." "PATTI, JAN, AND ROY:" "it Oh, there's only one Janu it" "Their GOO-mile round trip by oar is costing around £100 between them." "Alright, son?" "While for the others, the total cost of five return tickets is £60." "I've never been surrounded by so many admiring men for a very long time." "ROSEMARY:" "I know." "MIRIAM:" "I'd have worn a tighter bra if I'd known." "ROSEMARY LAUGHS" "Ugh." "Tha, thanks." "WAYNE:" "Alright?" " Yeah." "Right, say 'a bottle a beer.'" "Bottle a beer." "Bottle of beer." "Bottle of beer." " THEY LAUGH" "I might have a little kip in the, er, train." "Are you gonna have a kip?" "I don't think I can avoid it." " ROSEMARY LAUGHS" "I'm so tired." "Cos I was up all night shitting, you know." "TRAIN HOOTS" " Yes." "This must be it." "The train is packed, so the pensioners have had to book into different carriages." "64 to one." " That sounds like a bet." "The gentlemen are in Third Class,." "Yes, this is the one." "This is the one, yeah." " That's Second Class." "The lad/es in Second Class." " Yeah, so this is the one." "It's got the number here." "We have to go further down." "No, we need B. We're further up." "This is BE1." "We're B1." "Thank you so much." " Thank you so much." "Thank you." "B1, here's B1." "This one." " SYLVESTER:" "B1." "You can just about see it written up there." "I mean it's not very clear." "ROSEMARY:" "We need 11 and 12." "Which, A1?" " A1." "Yeah, this is, er, A1." "The group will be on the train for four hours,." "WAYNE:" "What does that say?" "Yeah?" "Three, two, one, you're five." "Excuse me, what number are you?" " MAN:" "One." "One." "Okay, thank you." "Safely on the train, they now need to get to grips with the seating arrangements." "If he wants to lie down then we have to go up." "Up." " And then I have to go up." "Yes." " Okay." "Well that's alright, so, you know." "Well, I'm small enough to crawl to the top, I suppose." "Is this, is this 11?" "Yeah, yeah." " That's 11?" "Ah, so I have to get up?" "MIRIAM:" "You sit here." "How do I get up there?" "You, you want to show me?" "Yeah." "Like this." "It's very simple." "Put that..." "LADY:" "Yeah." " Yeah." "Hold that..." "Ooh!" " METAL CRACKS" "LADY LAUGHS" "MIRIAM:" "I think maybe..." " No!" "SHE LAUGHS" "It's very testing and rather exhausting actually." "I feel a bit whacked!" "Good night." "Sweet dreams." " SYLVESTER:" "Sweet dreams." "WAYNE:" "Ah, this is the life." "Wahey!" "BOBBY:" "No, you gotta go head first." " SYLVESTER:" "Yes, I have to put my head in first..." "BOBBY:" "Gotta go head first." " I don't know where to put my foot." "Ugh." "That's it." "BOBBY:" "That's it, crawl along like you're a..." " I'm a commando." "Yeah, in the SAS, son." " Yes." "I couldn't do it, see." "I could never do that." "Oh, look!" "MIRIAM:" "There you go." "An hour into their journey, Rosemary and Miriam have worked out that in second class they can turn their bed into seats." "Wouldn't it be good to have a good cup of tea?" "What I really would like is a flush toilet." " ROSEMARY LAUGHS" "And I don't think I'm going to get that for quite a while." "No." "Have you got your, have you got your, er, a loo roll with you?" "Oh, I never travel without it." "I think it's one of the things you learn as you get older." "Yeah, I've got..." " Take loo roll." "Always be prepared." "Well, you've either got to be prepared or have a very tough sphincter." "And I don't know that I have." " ROSEMARY LAUGHS" "Patti, Jan and Roy are two hours into their five hour journey to the Taj Mahal." "While its creator, Emperor Shah Jahan, said it made the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes." "My wish list of course would be to see the Taj Mahal." "The Taj was built by Emperor Shah Jahan, to lay his favourite wife to rest." "The magnificent tomb is a symbol of his love for her." "JAN:" "I'm very sentimental and romantic and it's just wonderful now to have this opportunity because when you live on your own, I mean I'm not a scaredy-cat, I'll go and do things but I certainly wouldn't go to India on my own." "So this is a whole new culture and, at my age, I'm, I'm, you know, grabbing each day." "SYLVESTER SINGS" "With an hour left until they reach Agra" "Sylvester is searching for Second Class and the rest of his group." "I don't know where they are." "SINGING" "Oh, they're singing!" "Hello!" "Oh, they're singing in here." "SINGING" "Rosemary and Wayne are busy making friends with their fellow travellers." "The car is still 85 miles from the monument to love." "I've had my heart broken by a girl at school." " Really?" "JAN LAUGHS" "Right." "I've no idea why I fell for her, because I hardly even spoke to her." "We used to go to a little sweet shop, but sometimes they had a Lucky Bag and there was a ring in this one, you know." "Ooh!" " And er, I was passing her in the corridor and I slipped in into her hand and she went..." "Oooh!" "No!" "Roy!" "I didn't go back to school!" "THEY LAUGH" "Have you, have you ever had your heart broken?" "Me?" "No." "SHE LAUGHS" "Lucky you." "This is the best thing!" "Oh my god!" "What is it?" "The local ladies are on a religious pilgrimage and are decorating their hands with henna." "WAYNE:" "What does it mean?" " ROSEMARY:" "What does it mean?" "Yes, I see, with the husband, very good." "What's your husband's name?" " ROSEMARY:" "Michael." "Michael." " WAYNE:" "Michael." "ROSEMARY:" "We're separated." "How can I tell them?" " WAYNE:" "Oh, you're separated?" "ROSEMARY:" "Yes, we separated." " WAYNE:" "Um..." "ROSEMARY:" "Excuse me, no, no, no." " WAYNE:" "Excuse me, no." "They are separate?" " Yes." " WAYNE:" "Rosemary here, separate." "I still have memories, yes." "Yes." " WAYNE:" "Oh well!" "Go on then!" "Go on!" "Yeah, go on." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "So you still have good memories." "What they were saying was if you put the man's name on your hand it makes you closer, you take it into your heart." "We've, we had a lot of very good times and to always, and we still have good times but it's slightly different, but still, but still have him, remember the good times, which I've got." "How long were you married for?" "Um, I was married um, for 26 years." "We had our 25th anniversary." "We did the whole of Paris in the weekend, you know." "Oh, it was wonderful." "Unfortunately, er, 12 months later she had passed." "Oh no." "But at least you did that." "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah, we wished we'd done more." " Oh!" "Unable to hold on for the whole of the long journey, Miriam has had to brave the on-board facilities." "There was a flush toilet and it flushed and it was a toilet." "Was it like a toilet that I know?" "Never in my life did I see toilet like that!" "That was, you know, that was quite a special toilet." "BOBBY LAUGHS" " But it was a toilet, so..." "I was grateful for it." "Bang on schedule, the train pulls into Agra Fort Station." "WAYNE:" "I think we should get off." "There's a step here." "You got it?" "Well, let's go and find the others." "The train journey was alright cos I..." "99% of it I went to sleep." "So er, yeah, I would use the trains cos you just go to bed." "Thank you." "It's been a lovely, lovely, lovely, love..." "Thank you so much." "It was wonderful." "Wonderful!" "That train journey, I have to say, one of the best train journeys I've ever had in my whole life, ever." "If I was to retire here it would be a wonderful way to go, and what fun!" "I mean, what fun!" "Rosemary, why don't you come with me?" " Okay." "Are you alright with them?" "BOBBY:" "I'll go with er, Sylvester." " ROSEMARY:" "Sylvester." " WAYNE:" "Okay." "And the fu, and the fuhrer." "ROSEMARY:" "And the fuhrer." " THEY LAUGH" "The station is two miles away from the Taj Mahal,." "HORNS BEEP" "MIRIAM:" "Wahey!" "SYLVESTER:" " It's like dodgems." "Great fun!" "WAYNE:" "Five." "WAYNE AND ROSEMARY:" "Five on a bike." "WAYNE:" "Think that's the world record so far." "ROSEMARY:" "Yeah, five on a bike." "SYLVESTER:" "Ah, brass band!" "WAYNE:" "It's amazing!" " ROSEMARY:" "Oh, look at the brass band." "WAYNE:" "Ah, fabulous!" "Oh my goodness, look at that!" "Look, look, look, look!" "This is the East Gate." " Look!" "WAYNE:" "Oh, it's there!" "WAYNE:" "Taj Mahal, East Gate." "South Gate, straight on." " ROSEMARY:" "South Gate, straight on." "It is very hot." "Today in Agra, it's 38 degrees and much more humid than Jaipur." "Are you okay?" "Do you think you'll make it or are you...?" "I don't know." "I'll have to." "This is hot." "I'm not so good in the heat." "Oh!" "Here we go, steps." "Do you want some help?" " No." "Are you alright, Miriam?" " I'm alright as long as I hold on to the... to the burning poles." " THEY LAUGH" "WAYNE:" "Gosh." " ROSEMARY:" "They're high steps." "Wow!" "That's only the gate." " I know." "MIRIAM LAUGHS" "Every year, three million people visit the Taj Mahal widely regarded as the world's greatest monument to love." "MIRIAM:" "I just have to keep going because otherwise I stop." "And I want to see it." "ROSEMARY:" "Look at that!" "Isn't that amazing!" "How beautiful." "MIRIAM:" "It's a monument of love." " ROSEMARY:" "Look at it!" "ROSEMARY GASPS" "SYLVESTER:" "It looks like it, doesn't it, you believe it is." " ROSEMARY:" "It feels it." "You believe it's a work of love." "It's unbelievable." "It's mind-blowing." "I'm going to have a selfie." "ROSEMARY:" "You come to a place like this it does make you think about your own life." "I had a most wonderful husband." "Um, two wonderful children and I had this, this, this wonderful life and I've lost a lot of that." "I've lost I lost a lot of the love and I, and I really, I'm a person who would love to be loved" "I mean really loved and felt, you know, special." "And I think it's the one thing that we all want, we all want to be loved." "José, is the sound on?" "Can you see me?" "Guess where I am?" "Look!" "PATTI:" "Cos it's my anniversary tomorrow." "WAYNE:" "Oh, is it'?" " Wedding anniversary and I thought that's it" "I'm taking a picture, I'm gonna send it to my husband - this is what I want." "WAYNE LAUGHS" " For your birthday." "ROY:" "My wife would have loved to have been here." "But if you know what love is..." "WOMAN:" "Do you?" " You bet." "Do you miss me?" "I love you." "HE LAUGHS" "JAN:" "It's such a beautiful place." "I would love to have been here with someone I love." "It's also been emotional for me because, although he left me 20 years ago the love of my life was cremated yesterday." "And I went up there and I wished I believed in heaven, and I don't anymore." "So it has been emotional." "MIRIAM:" "Obviously I would have liked to be with my partner, sharing this beautiful experience." "To come here, wow!" "I don't have words for that." "It speaks for itself." "Madness!" "Next time, the group visit the holiest Hindu city..." "Oh!" "Hit by a bull." "Anybody who goes to India and isn't interested in Indian religions is a muffin." "Get down with Jaipur's party scene..." "This has been one of the most fabulous evenings I've had in a decade." "And have a right laugh." "If I went over my park and sat doing that they'd think I'm a nutcase."