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

Mark Steel & Andy Zaltzman - Purgatory Season

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

Sony Music

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A naked Nikita Khrushchev, 20,000 sonnets and Pterodactyl fodder. Great innings... Author and comedian Mark Steel has reincarnated as HOST this time around, and welcomes statistician and co-host of The Bugle podcast, Andy Zaltzman on to die for our Purgatory Season... Want the episodes ad free AND extra content from Mark Steel and Andy Zaltzman, PLUS everything from the Kathy Burke archive? 6 Feet Under steps away from fantasy and rifles through your real funeral tales. Head to wheretheresawilltheresawake.com to subscribe. AND If you've got a story for us, send it over to [email protected]. 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

Oh, oh hi, I'm Mel Gerdroich and I'm going to be your host on...

0:03.6

Where there's a will.

0:07.4

There's a wink.

0:09.4

There's a wake.

0:12.4

So each week I'm going to be meeting with a different deceased celeb guest to discuss how they died,

0:18.0

what they want for their funeral, and perhaps most importantly, why I should

0:22.1

be unlocking the pearly gates for them. You'll laugh, you probably won't cry, but bloody hell

0:27.6

you'll be entertained. See you on the 20th of May, listen and watch wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.8

Now before I introduced our esteemed guest, I must give a swear warning, which, well, you

0:38.7

wouldn't have had this a few years ago on a podcast, but you do now a swear warning because

0:42.5

there will be swearing.

0:43.7

I feel a little bit like those commentators at sporting events during COVID when you could

0:50.0

hear the manager at the football going, B-moving!

0:55.2

And now we've got to really, really go for it for the swearing to make that introduction valid.

1:01.4

Hello, I'm Mark Still, and I've been dancing with my dead friends all through the night.

1:07.5

So many people here in the afterlife.

1:10.7

I was with Genghis Khan this morning and I know he's got a reputation.

1:14.6

He's all right once you get to know him.

1:16.5

So this is a quick reminder that six feet under is very much alive.

1:21.4

And you can get more of me and the magnificent, benevolent, sportistic and desaultsman.

1:27.8

Someone you think is a twat.

1:30.3

A twat?

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