We Need To Talk About Death

8PM, RADIO 4

Paupers’ funerals, now called public health funerals, are for those who have no relatives to pay for their burial. In theory, they are also for families who struggle to feed and house their living members, let alone pay for the dead. In this clear and unsentimental programme, Joan Bakewell looks at the business of burying the dead and the rising costs of funerals.