Ep.13 Adam Riches
Griefcast
Griefcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Cariad talks to comedian and writer Adam Riches (Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Top Coppers, The Detectorists) about his Dad's death from pneumonia, after suffering with Dementia in a care home. As ever they discuss grief, funerals + shaving.
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| 0:20.0 | You're listening to Giefcast with me, Carrie Adloyd. |
| 0:25.0 | How do we Gief for someone? |
| 0:27.0 | How does it change in a role as we get older? |
| 0:31.0 | My dad died when I was 15 and it took me many, many years to be able to express what I had gone through. |
| 0:38.0 | So I decided to create Giefcast, a chance to talk, share and laugh about the weirdness of Gief and death. |
| 0:45.0 | But with comedians, so it's not that depressing, I promise. |
| 0:49.0 | Each time I talked to a different comedian about their own personal experience of Gief, |
| 0:54.0 | as we remember someone that they have lost along the way. |
| 0:57.0 | Whether it was a long time ago or you've just joined the club, |
| 1:00.0 | this is a chance to talk about the peculiar human process of death. |
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| 1:21.0 | It really means a world to know this strange little show is helping in any way at all really, so thank you. |
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| 1:34.0 | because you are not alone. |
| 1:36.0 | This week's guest is comedian and writer Adam Riches. |
| 1:39.0 | Adam is a genuine legend of the Adam of Fringe. |
| 1:42.0 | He won the Foster's Comedy Prize in 2011 and since then he has had several radio four series |
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