Living with dying

Poppy Mardall - today's guest - is a great advocate of talking more about death and dying.  She decided that funerals need a fresh approach and founded a business - called Poppy's - on that basis.  Sh...

7 Jan 202435min

Today's episode will resonate with many of us, as Mark Tinkler talks about losing both his mother and father during the terrible time of Covid

1 Jan 202426min

For this Christmas week, we're talking to Catherine Beer of Thames Hospice about the range of feelings that can be stirred up by all the festivity around us, and how best to navigate the various anniv...

18 Dec 202331min

In this episode, Dilys talks to Andrew Peters who reflects on one layer of grief on top of another..... the sudden loss of his father 10 years ago, followed by the sudden loss of his brother only last...

12 Dec 202345min

Sir Ken Dodd's widow - Lady Dodd - talks us through the story of her long life with the comedian and how she picked up the pieces after his death in 2018. An exhibition called Happiness, which celebra...

6 Nov 202330min

I'm Dilys Morgan and I met my late husband Michael Barratt when I joined the early evening BBC TV Nationwide programme. In this, the first episode of Living with dying, I tell my own story of the rece...

6 Nov 202339min