Over My Dead Poddy

💀🎙️🤘🏻 Series 2: Episode 9 - Talking Before It's Too Late: How  Palliative Care Is There To Help''    🤘🏻🎙️💀  

This one’s gentle, honest, and as always, vitally important. In this episode we’re talking end of life choices and the support available if you or someone you love needs palliative care. What it actually is (and what it isn’t), where to find help, how it can support families, and how to start the conversations most p...

🎙️💀🤘🏻Series 2: Episode 8: Tiny Life, Massive Love: Bex and Evelyn's Story🤘🏻🎙️💀

This one is tender, raw, and deeply real. We sit down with our gorgeous former Co-host Bex,  as she shares Evelyn’s story, losing her baby just hours after she was born. We talk honestly about those first unbearable moments, and how being a Funeral Director helped Bex find her footing, and later helped her support other families walking the same ...

🤘🏻💀🎙️ Season 2 Episode 7 🤘🏻💀🎙️

This week we’re getting uncomfortably practical about death. Wills, Probate and Power of Attorney. Whether you’ve got a record collection and a cat or a million-pound mansion, someone’s dealing with it one day, and you need to deal with it now!

We’re joined by the brilliant Danielle Sutcliffe to make sense of it all and inspire you to set up your own Death File! No doom. No jargon. Just dead ...

🎙️💀🤘🏻WE’RE BACK. with Hosts Nichola Reeder and Cllr Carl Tate SERIES 2 EPISODE 6 🎙️💀🤘🏻

After a short hiatus where life (and yes… death) did what it does best and got in the way, Over My Dead Poddy is back on the airwaves. And we're so excited! 

In this latest episode, we’re catching up on what’s really going on in the funeral world right now and t...

Ever wondered what really happens inside a crematorium? This week we’re joined by Simon Routledge from the Crematoria & Memorial Group — a man who has seen everything… including the day the Teletubbies hijacked a funeral. Yes, really. We’re pulling back the metaphorical (and very literal) curtain to talk about the unseen world of crematoria: the care, the precision, the surprises, the humanity, the technology… and why getting t...

This week we’re talking legacies — the real kind, not the dry legal sort. We’re joined by Katie from Dead Good Legacies, who’s flipping the script on death education and showing why your impact doesn’t end when the funeral does. We dig into how personal a goodbye can be, what losing someone taught her about living, and why getting comfy with your own mortality might just be the most life-affirming thing you do. Dead honest, dead go...

This week, we invite fellow Funeral Director David Knowles into the studio to do two things: 1)  fact-check a few of Carl’s Series 1 bombshells, and 2) bring the kind of experience that makes Carl and Nichola look like interns!  We get into the wildest logistical ask of David’s career (yes, it involved hiring a private jet), the invisible work that makes difficult days smoother, and why he believes more regulation isn’t red tape—it...

This week we’re chatting with the brilliant and award-winning Katie Costello — soul midwife, funeral celebrant, death education powerhouse — about why talking about death and dying actually makes life bigger, more peaceful and a whole lot braver.

We dig into the real stuff: why we dodge death chat like it’s contagious, how fear and silence hold us back, and why finding the guts to say what you really want (yes, even about your fune...

Season 2 kicks off with a big, old catch-up episode, chatting about what we've been up to, what's coming up in the new series, and why Carl's devastated he's had to give up his beloved Pop Tarts!  You can expect more myth busting, more honest truths and some laughs along the way. 

We're so excited to back - still curious, still human and still dying to answer all the questions you daren't ask! 

So tune in to Episode 1 now, and get ...

🎙️💀🤘🏻 Episode 11: The Live Edit – Season Finale 🎙️💀🤘🏻

Fast. Frantic. Occasionally flying off at a tangent (ok, often flying off at a tangent)… this one’s raw, unfiltered and very much live.

We were honoured to crash Stockton Crematorium’s Open Day, where we set up the mics, threw out the rulebook, and invited your burning questions. No edits, no scripts – just us, a curious crowd, and the kind of conversations you don’t nor...

💀🎙🤘🏻Fast Fire Funeral Qs: Your Burning Questions, Our Blunt Answers 💀🎙🤘🏻

It’s our Fast Fire Funeral Qs special! We blitz through your most-asked questions from the practicalities of how to buy a burial plot, to Carl’s plans for his own send-off, and yes, whether you have to be cremated in your bra. Nothing off-limits, nothing too weird. Honest, human, and a bit edgy—just how you like it. Head over to your favourite podcast...

 🎙️💀 Eulogies are no longer just life CV's,  told through tears. This week we’re getting dead real about how to write a tribute that truly reflects the colour and depth of yours, or your loved one's, life 🎙️💀

What goes in: the messy truths, the stories you all know and love, the moments that paint the picture of who they were What stays out: clichés, a boring timeline, saint-ification, waffle.

Whether you're writing your own—or...

We had a killer chat with Dave Robson on Zetland FM this week which pulled us right back to why we started this podcast in the first place — you, our listeners.

We thought it was too important to get lost on our socials so we're releasing it as this week's episode. 

You can expect: 

🎧 Honest talk about why these conversations matter.

🎧 A bit of myth-busting to cut through the noise.

🎧 Some dead good tunes that kept us grinning a...

In this episode, Carl sits down with Chris Power for a conversation straight from the heart about  her late husband Anthony “Tiny” Power. 

Tiny wasn’t just a familiar face around Richmond—he was a legend. Larger than life, loved by all, and impossible to forget - his spirit still lingers in the streets, the pubs, and in the memories of everyone who knew him.

Chris opens up about the man behind the myth: the laughs, the love, the fu...

Funerals: where grief meets grudges and the family WhatsApp explodes.

We’re talking bust-ups over hymns, side-eye at the service, and who really gets the last word.

This week we’re lifting the lid on: ⚡ The stuff families really fight about ⚡ How we try to keep the peace (without a referee’s whistle) ⚡ How you can help yourself when the sparks fly ⚡ And that juicy myth about recycled coffins

It’s messy, it’s maddening, it’s mortall...

In this episode, Nichola sits down with Michael McWilliams for a raw and moving conversation that began in heartbreak. In 2022, Nichola led the funeral for Michael’s son Harvey — just 18 years old when he took his own life. Together, they reflect on how Harvey’s funeral became something different: deeply personal, fiercely individual, and a true celebration of who he was.

Out of tragedy, Harvey’s family have created something extra...

No doubt you’ve seen those endless TV ads for “no fuss” funerals —  the promises to save you time, money, and stress. Sounds perfect, right? Here’s the twist… it’s not actually a funeral. It’s just a cremation.

We’re not here to tell you what’s right for you or your loved one. But we are here to cut through the smoke, bust the myths, and clear up the confusion.  And here's the surprising truth? Your local funeral director has been ...

So you’ve got the bones of the ceremony … now what?

In this episode, we’re getting into the good stuff — the personal touches that turn a standard service into something unforgettable. From picking the perfect song (no, it doesn’t have to be Eva Cassidy and yes it can be Ring of Fire) to wrangling family tributes that actually hit the mark, we’re talking about how to shape a ceremony that truly tells your person’s story.

And is it ...