Ep. 79 Emer McLysaght

Griefcast

Bereavement, Death, Arts, Performing Arts, Cariad Lloyd, Grief, Loss, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews, Education, Comedy

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Cariad talks to writer Emer McLysaght (Oh My God What A Complete Aisling, The Importance of Being Aisling) about her Dad, who died eleven years ago. As ever they talk grief, chair politics + Neil Diamond.

You can buy Emer's Aisling's books, (written with Sarah Breen) in paperback now, you can also follow her on twitter @emerthescreamer. You can follow the Griefcast on twitter and instagram @thegriefcast and you can email [email protected]

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0:00.0	Love this podcast.
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0:08.6	Just hit the link in the show description to support now.
0:19.8	You're listening to Giefcast with me, Carrie Adloyd.
0:24.8	How do we Gief for someone?
0:26.8	How does it change and evolve 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.
0:50.0	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.
0:58.0	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.
1:06.0	Welcome to Giefcast.
1:20.0	Hey, Greasters.
1:21.0	I hope you're having an okay week.
1:22.0	I'm recording this extremely late
1:25.0	because just for update, she's sleeping guys.
1:27.0	A child, if you listened to last week's intro.
1:30.0	But now I've got loads of work to catch up on and I have to do it late at night.
1:33.0	What have I been doing?
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