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...
Episode 72: Jane Harris
Nov 24 2025 • 00:27:54
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 ...
Episode 71: Dr Rachael de Caux
Nov 11 2025 • 00:25:57
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 hel...
Episode 70: Lucy Easthope
Oct 27 2025 • 00:34:45
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 exp...
Episode 69: Nina Nannar
Oct 13 2025 • 00:35:01
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 caus...
Episode 68: Maxine and Marilyn
Sep 29 2025 • 00:25:58
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, Ma...
Episode 67: Dr Bill Webster
Sep 15 2025 • 00:27:59
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 experi...
Episode 66: Suzanne Elvidge
Sep 01 2025 • 00:26:10
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 i...
Episode 65: Richard Chalmers
Aug 18 2025 • 00:26:04
Richard Chalmers and friends recognised a need in their community for bereavement support some 20 years ago. Since then, they've been running regular...
Episode 64: Catherine Beer
Aug 04 2025 • 00:32:48
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 h...
