The Life and Death Podcast returns for Series 3 – and we’re going Stateside!

The Life and Death Podcast produced by Reform Radio, in collaboration with Ashgate Hospice returns for a third series. Stephen Rumford, talks to people who have experiences of death and dying to get a deeper understanding of what life and death means to them. This series welcomes guests from stateside as the charity meets guests from as far as Arizona who have experienced bereavement, death and conversations around dying.

Each episode welcomes experts, writers, doctors and people who have experienced end-of-life care to discuss their unique relationships, hospice life, and how death affects the living. 

The first episode was released on Monday 2nd May to coincide with Dying Matters Awareness Week. In the first episode, host and Senior Physiotherapist at Ashgate Hospice, Stephen Rumford, meets 45-year-old Kimberley Greaves to discuss life as a young widow and mum to two children. The pair discuss the awkward conversations Kimberley faces when she tells people her husband has died and how her children kept her going through the darkest of times. 

Among the guests featured in season three include Sunday Times best seller and journalist Clover Stroud, author of the recently released ‘The Death of My Blood’ and neuroscientist Mary-Frances O’Connor, an author and associate professor at the University of Arizona, as well as Seamus O’Mahoney, well-regarded commentator on modern medicine and healthcare systems.

Episode 1 & 2 with Kimberley Grove and Seamus O’Mahoney are available to listen below and episodes will be released fornightnightly.

To listen back to series one, two and the special one off Christmas episode you can search for ‘The Life and Death Podcast Ashgate Hospice’ or by clicking the link.