Evie King on Get Ahead of Being Dead - Book Club
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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RHLSTP Book Club #184 - Get Ahead of Being Dead - Rich catches up with Evie King (if that is her real name) to talk about her unique job and the books she has written about it and why we need to get prepped for our own deaths. They chat about organising funerals for people who die with no one to do it for them (and how that could be you), whether it’s necessary for her to work as hard as she does on this, how you need a strong stomach for her job, but also why you need to write down all your details and funereal wishes, why you can’t have a Viking funeral, but can be buried in your own garden, why you’re a tricky to burn bag of fluid, why dying shouldn’t be so taboo and thing you can do to liven up your funeral. A very positive book and chat about a subject that people don’t like to talk about.
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| 1:08.2 | Hello, welcome to another Rehala Book Club. |
| 1:11.4 | This week I have been reading Get Ahead of Being Dead by Evie King, if that is her real name. |
| 1:17.1 | And this isn't the cover. |
| 1:19.3 | I like this, I like it. |
| 1:21.0 | It's nice. |
| 1:21.5 | Simple. |
| 1:21.8 | It's a cover. |
| 1:22.7 | It's like the, if they just don't even have the title on like the white album. |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.2 | I'm joined by Evie King right now. Hello. Nice to see you. We know each other quite well. We do. In the guise of your real life. Did we ever, did we, you've been on before, which we'll talk, we will mention the book. Did we talk about last time why you have gone for a pseudonym? We did briefly. Yeah. Yeah. And why it was Evie King? First question, the answer is, I'll do it in two stages. Yeah. To put a little bit of respectful distance between myself, my day job, which I still do. Yes. Which is carrying up funerals to people with no family or money. So obviously I want to keep a little bit of distance. |
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