Ep.20 Gemma Whelan
Griefcast
Griefcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Cariad talks to actor and comedian Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones, The Crown, Uncle, Upstart Crow), about her Dad who died of cancer in 2016. As ever they discuss grief, pregnancy + wailing like a siren.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. |
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| 0:05.0 | It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:08.6 | Just hit the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:15.8 | Have you ever wondered what it's like to win big on the National Lottery? |
| 0:20.0 | Just to confirm, are you somewhere you're able to talk at the moment? |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, we're at home. |
| 0:27.0 | Love me. After check the ticket and I can confirm you are now millionaires. |
| 0:33.0 | No! |
| 0:34.0 | Yes! |
| 0:35.0 | Do you remember what we won? |
| 0:38.0 | Imagine that. It could be you. The National Lottery. |
| 0:42.0 | Rawls and procedures apply. Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:46.0 | You're listening to Griefcast with me, Carrie Adloid. |
| 0:50.0 | How do we grieve for someone? How does it change and evolve as we get older? |
| 0:55.0 | My dad died when I was 15 and it took me many, many years to be able to express what I had gone through. |
| 1:02.0 | So I decided to create Griefcast, a job that I could do. |
| 1:06.0 | I was a little bit more than I thought. |
| 1:09.0 | I had been doing it for many years to be able to express what I had gone through. |
| 1:14.0 | So I decided to create Griefcast, a chance to talk, share and laugh about the weirdness of grief and death. |
| 1:21.0 | But with comedians, so it's not that depressing I promise. |
| 1:25.0 | Each time I talked to a different comedian about their own personal experience of grief, |
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