Living with dying

For this episode, we visit a Bereavement Group which meets once a month at the GreenAcres Chiltern Living Memorial Park.  Here people who've lost someone recently, or long ago, meet up to swap notes a...

5 Jan 27min

Paul Calandrino's wife - novelist Cai Emmons - decided to end her life once the devastating disease ALS took its hold.  They live in Oregon so she was able to choose when to die.  And she wanted a rec...

8 Des 202538min

Jane Harris and her husband set up the Good Grief Project on the sudden, unexpected death of her son while he was away travelling.  She describes the devastating impact of this loss and how they now d...

24 Nov 202527min

Extraordinarily, this week we celebrate two years of this podcast, and we mark this by talking to the CEO of Thames Hospice, where I found so much help and support in the early days.   Dr Rachael de C...

11 Nov 202525min

Lucy Easthope is well known for her two best selling books - When the Dust Settles and Come What May - both detailing the wisdom from her years of expertise in the disaster and crisis management field...

27 Okt 202534min

Nina Nannar - ITV's Arts Editor - found her life turned upside down three years ago when her husband of 23 years, Steve, died after complications caused by kidney disease. She talks movingly here of h...

13 Okt 202535min

In many of these episodes we've learnt how finding people who've been through a very similar experience can be the best help in bereavement.  Here, Maxine and Marilyn who've both found help from their...

29 Sep 202525min

Dr Bill Webster - Grief Counsellor, and author and founder of The Grief Journey - is on tour in the UK at the moment presenting seminars on his experience of grief and loss and his advice for the bere...

15 Sep 202527min