Here Lies Reverend Richard Coles

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

Sony Music

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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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 [email protected] Joining Mel this week is the HOLY Reverand Richard Coles - writer, radio presenter and Church of England priest. Romeo Beckham, Dumbledore and Gangrene. Dig where the sh*t is! 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	Yeah, there's a lot more fun over on six feet under to be had.
0:04.1	You can go ad free if you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or indeed if you head to Where There's a Will There's Awake.com.
0:11.6	That's a jingle I've just made up on the ruddy spot, where there's a will, there'sawake.
0:17.9	Hello there, I'm Mel Gedroych, Gedders, Celestial receptionist here at PG Towers, aka Pearly Gates, Towers, and no, I'm not talking tea bags, although there was a chap here earlier who had to pop down both the words tea and bagging into his cause of death.
0:36.6	Listen, welcome to Wuta, wua, wu, wita,, owi, owi, where there's a will, there's awake.
0:47.6	Where there's a will, there's awake.
0:55.0	And who do we find at the gates today will be dreaming? There's a wink. There's a wink.
1:08.0	And who do we find at the gates today? We'll be dragging him over the coals to find out where he'll be spending his afterlife eternity. It's only the holiest hustler I know, the ravishing, or should I say reverishing?
1:13.6	Reverend Richard calls. Reverend Ritcher. say reverend. Revershing. Reverent reached a course.
1:17.7	Reverent, reverend richard calls.
1:19.9	Oh, that's my life complete.
1:20.6	Isn't there?
1:25.1	I think heaven, or the threshold to heaven, I should say, let's not presume.
1:26.1	Which is where we are?
1:26.9	We'll be like that.
1:27.5	Wouldn't it? Yeah. Just a beautiful celestial choir. A setting. Let's not presume. Which is where we are. We'll be like that. Wouldn't it?
1:27.8	Yeah.
1:30.0	Just a beautiful celestial choir. A core of one's own name.
1:31.9	But they'd still mispronounce your surname, wouldn't they?
1:33.8	Because everybody does.
1:35.0	The worst one I ever had was Gladrags.
1:37.6	I love that.
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