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The oldest man to have ever lived?

Alberbury’s Tom Parr lived for 152 years and 9 months, or did he?

When he died in 1635 he had become the stuff of legend and was buried in Westminster Abbey by order of King Charles I.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Shropshire’s Mark Elliott explores the man, the myth, that was ‘Old’ Tom Parr.

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