Kevin Toolis is a BAFTA winning film maker and writer of the acclaimed death guide My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die. Toolis has reported on famines, wars and plagues all over the world for The New York Times and The Guardian. As a documentary maker he has filmed in the middle east and directed the Emmy-nominated Cult of the Suicide Bomber television history series. He is also producer/ director of a compelling new stage work Wonders of the Wake that revives the lost art of Irish keening and celebrates the ancient rite of the Irish Wake.
In this episode we talk all about the Irish Wake, the death of his brother and father, grief dreams in the Irish culture, grief dreams in families of suicide bombers, and his own grief dreams of those he reports on.
You can find more about Kevin at www.myfatherswake.com or on Twitter @KevinToolis
Here is his BBC video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALT8zbjnjkY
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Episode 57 - Eileen Doyon
Episode 56 - Grief Dream Recaps - E02
Episode 55 - Grief Dream Recaps - E01
Episode 54 - Update and Contest
Episode 53 - Steve Leder
Episode 52 - Shelby Forsythia
Episode 51 - Brian Lehmann
Episode 50 - Anna Seewald
Episode 49 - Steve Morrison
Episode 48 - Diane Murphy
Episode 47 - Robin Chodak
Episode 46 - Mary Howe
Episode 45 - Dr. Tim Murphy
Episode 44 - Allen Klein
Episode 43 - Cheryl Jones
Episode 42 - Bonnie Tompkins
Episode 41 - Justin Wren
Episode 40 - Jeannette Thompson
Episode 39 - Rachel Gebler Greenberg
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