Ep. 89 Dustin Lance Black

Griefcast

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

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Cariad talks to writer, director and producer Dustin Lance Black (Milk, Mamas Boy, Surrogacy: The final frontier) about his brother, who died of bowel cancer and his mum who died a few years after. As ever they talk grief, politics + whiskey.

You can follow Dustin Lance on twitter @DLanceblack and his book Mamas Boy is out now. You can follow the Griefcast on twitter and instagram @thegriefcast.

Griefcast won Gold (always believe in your soul) in Best Entertainment, Best Interview + also Podcast of the Year 2018 at the British Podcast Awards and Best Podcast at the ARIA's. It is hosted by Cariad Lloyd, edited by Kate Holland, recorded at Whistledown Studios and the music is provided by The Glue Ensemble. And remember, you are not alone.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast.
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0:09.0	Just hit the link in the show description to support now.
0:20.0	You're listening to Griefcast with me, Carrie Adloyd.
0:25.0	How do we grieve 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 Griefcast, a chance to talk, share and laugh about the weirdness of grief 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 grief,
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.
1:06.0	Welcome to Griefcast.
1:08.0	Hey Griefsters, hope you're having a good week.
1:13.0	Just a reminder that if you are at the Lattichude Festival this weekend, we will also be there.
1:18.0	I just mean I will be there on the Sunday at 1 o'clock at the podcast tent, which is called Listening Post.
1:24.0	I'm going to be joined by Tez Ilias, Vanessa Hammock and Tom Allen of Bake Off Fame.
1:29.0	We'll be doing a live episode. If you can't make that, we have two more live episodes coming up in the autumn, September 15th at the London Podcast Festival at 7 o'clock.
1:36.0	Kings Place, head to their website for tickets and September 26th we're going to be at St Thomas's Hospital doing a podcast with their palliative care team.
1:43.0	So head to the Twitter, I think, for that website.
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