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Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

Here Lies Dara O'Briain

Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

Sony Music

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A springing Denise, an estate agent and a bit of Babylonian... Mock The Week host and legendary Irish comic Dara O'Briain tells us all about his fictional death. Want the episodes ad free AND extra content from Mel and the guests, PLUS everything from the Kathy Burke archive? 6 Feet Under gets knee deep in all your cracking correspondence. Head to wheretheresawilltheresawake.com to subscribe. AND If you've got a story for us, send it over to mel@deathpodcast.co.uk A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

But see, there's also in Ireland, which doesn't happen now we would think of the removal. Which is... The removal is the night before the funeral. And I think we may even stop doing it now, where the body is brought from the home or the... I was going to see, the estate agents, what's they called again? Perhaps. No, the people who arrange... The undertakersakers. That's it. Be undertakers.

0:21.5

Well, my, see, I'm brought to a Foxton's first.

0:24.9

Or a Savils.

0:25.8

A foxes are Savils.

0:27.4

And then from there.

0:29.2

Like, it's a sign that this house may be on the market soon.

0:32.6

So.

0:34.2

Oh, my deathlings gather round as I, Mel Gedroich.

0:37.6

I'm in my full drama blacks, aka funereal gear.

0:42.3

Once again, we're in podcast purgatory,

0:44.8

for this is the show where your favourite dearly departed celebs,

0:47.6

sneak back for one last curtain call.

0:51.1

That's a curtain call.

0:52.0

Welcome to...

1:28.9

Well... curtain call. That's a curtain call. Welcome to... Well, there's a wheel. There's a wink. There's a wing. That's right. Each week, a freshly departed star arrives in my celestial studio. It's cool, isn't it? To muse on their final requests and give us the goss from beyond the grave. I'm sorry for saying, In It. I'm too old for that. Today's guest is so Irish, he makes a bowl of lucky charms look beige. He's the only man who could host mock the week while simultaneously explaining black holes. A concept nobody will ever understand but will always nod along to so they don't look thick. I've

1:33.4

done that many, many times. Look, well this is the thing. I've not seen this particular

1:37.7

person for quite a while and it is always a joy. The last time I bumped into this person

1:41.9

was on Paddington Station on the concourse.

1:45.0

He clearly doesn't remember.

1:46.7

I give you dear deathlings

1:48.8

and communities beyond

1:50.1

the magnificent.

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