Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Funeral Sentences

26th September 2005
Produced by Alan Hall

Alan Hall A radio meditation upon the everyday language of death and burial, from the poetry of the Anglican Burial Service for the Dead (…in the midst of life we are in death …) to the comfort and practicality offered by priests, policemen, undertakers, gravediggers and bereavement counsellors.

"respectful but never timid." Radio Times

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