Living with dying

Most people who are widowed will talk afterwards about how they flailed around, went numb, didn't know what they were doing or how they were feeling in the early stages of grief.  And yet it's at that...

1 Sep 202526min

Richard Chalmers and friends recognised a need in their community for bereavement support some 20 years ago.  Since then, they've been running regular support groups for the bereaved - where people co...

18 Aug 202526min

Most of us who've not experienced death worry about what it's going to be like - whether that's our own death or that of our loved ones.  Doulas can help take fear of the unknown away for people at th...

4 Aug 202532min

Lee Wakeham has a horrendous story to tell - of being abandoned by his mother aged two, of abuse during his first foster care placement, leading to years of offending and time in prison. So how did  h...

21 Jul 202533min

Louise Dillon's son died from an aggressive form of leukemia just after his 14th birthday.  Her own experience of how difficult it was returning to work, prompted her to offer training to businesses o...

7 Jul 202526min

Peter Cooper got in touch after listening to  episode 27 featuring his mother talking about the death of his father.  He mentioned that he felt there had been unacknowledged grief underlying his child...

23 Jun 202524min

Pippa and Grace were only 16 when their fathers died.  They didn't know each other at the time but met through the counselling offered by Thames Hospice and have since become firm friends.  Together t...

9 Jun 202528min

Baroness Glenys Kinnock and Lord Neil Kinnock were together for 60 years - the most high profile political couple of their generation.  "It is like losing a limb" says Neil. "Glenys suffered and died ...

19 Mai 202533min