Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

A suitcase, a dart and a splash zone.  Sit here, relax, and miss your next meeting.  Mel Giedroyc's first guest is sensational stand up comedian and author Suzi Ruffell! Want the episodes ad ...

20 Maj 202548min

A banquet, a living wage and bring on the dancing girls. Woah oah oh BRI-sterious girl.  Author and comedian Deborah Frances-White finds herself in the coffin throne as this week's host, accompa...

13 Maj 202541min

Where There’s a Will There's a Wake is being reborn with your brand new host Mel Giedroyc.  It’s still the show you know and love but she’s shaking things up just a little bit from her reception de...

6 Maj 20252min

A naked Nikita Khrushchev, 20,000 sonnets and Pterodactyl fodder. Great innings... Author and comedian Mark Steel has reincarnated as HOST this time around, and welcomes statistician and co-host...

6 Maj 202540min

An Evel Knievel stunt death, wasabi hell, and NO body poppin'.  Life is sweet, enjoy it. Deathlings, you're in for a treat! Comedian and Taskmaster runner up Kiell Smith-Bynoe, and actress Pearl...

29 Apr 202541min

The King, the Colonel, and the Crown.  Please bring your glasses back to the bar. You'll never guess who the Grim Reaper dragged in... Only the stand-up starlets that are Phil Wang and Pierre No...

22 Apr 202541min

Defying Gravity, a Michael Sheen eulogy and putting it gently inside yourself... Were those mini eggs off?  This week on The Purgatory Season are spectacular husband and wife combo Georgia and D...

15 Apr 202549min

A half-salted rim, bare-back & a bum-lift safari. This looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me... Oh yes, it pu-pu-pu-Purgatory Season week 3! And we're joined by BBC Radio 2 presen...

8 Apr 202540min