How Long Will You Live?


How Long Will You Live? is a television series broadcast on RTÉ One. Presented by Mark Hamilton, each week Hamilton examines a different individual with an unhealthy lifestyle, estimates their lifespan and attempts to increase that lifespan by implementing his own techniques into a plan to improve that person's lifestyle. A fourth series began airing on 7 January 2009. The series is sponsored by Flora.

Episode list

Series one

The first series contained six episodes.
DateFeatured personLink
Stephen Good
Frank Sweeney
Geraldine Patten
Marian Devereaux
Paul Losty
Breege Geoghegan

Series two

The second series contained eight episodes. The eight unhealthy individuals were revisited before the fourth series and their progress was filmed for a series titled How Long Will You Live? Revisited. One of these was a priest.
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Gary Rooney
Kathryn O'Dwyer
Michael Masterson
Diane Leen
Fr Vinny Connaughton
Angela Byrne
John Keane
Mary O'Neill

Series three

The third series contained ten episodes. Two couples featured in series three, meaning that twelve unhealthy individuals were featured overall. The third series saw the programme become more multicultural by featuring an unhealthy individual who was originally from Nigeria and another unhealthy individual who was originally from a small village in southern India.
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Rebecca Brady
Irene Winters
Thywill Bankole
Willie Carter
Paul and Mary Nolan
Colum McGrath
Antoinette and Kelly McLoughlin
Gaye Healy
Jagadeesh Dharmapuri
Dave McCarthy