Tunng Presents The Dead Club Podcast with Speech Debelle.

In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Becky speaks to musician Speech Debelle, who is a long time friend and collaborator with Mike Lindsay from Tunng who produced tracks on her 2009 debut album, Speech Therapy which went on to win the Mercury Music Prize. 

Speech spoke to Becky very honestly and openly about her own experiences of grief in the wake of the very recent death of her brother Delroy.

The Dead Club Podcast is an 8 part podcast series that brings to life British band, Tunng’s ground-breaking collaborative musical project, Dead Club: a meditation on loss and a riotous trip through life in all its goodness, oddness and wonder.  

We have interviewed people who have studied death, written about it, and documented it, but also those whose lives have touched it and have been close to it as well those for whom death is all in a day’s work. In this podcast series we’ll hear their voices. We’ll hear from Philosopher AC Grayling, author, Max Porter, illusionist, Derren Brown, musician Speech Debelle, author and palliative care Physician Kathryn Mannix, philosopher and writer Alain De Botton, poetry editor of the New Yorker, Kevin Young and Professor of Forensic Anthropology, Dame Sue Black. Each episode will present one of these conversations in depth, in all its detail. Underpinning and punctuating each episode is a soundscape formed from the new music we're creating for this album, as well as our own voices talking about the subject and what it means to us. There will also be some silliness and some spontaneity and some of that beautiful and unique wonkiness that makes us Tunng.

If you or somebody you know needs support in relation to any aspect of death, dying or grief you may find the following sites useful.

https://deathcafe.com

https://www.samaritans.org

https://www.cruse.org.uk

https://www.mind.org.uk

https://eol-doula.uk

Tunng Presents The Dead Club Podcast is a Stabl production and was made possible in part thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

You can pre-order the album, Tunng presents Dead Club here

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In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Sam speaks to Alain De Botton. Alain is a Swiss born British philosopher and author. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasising philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He is also the founder of The School of Life.

In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Sam speaks to Kathryn Mannix who is a British author and palliative care physician, who has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses.

In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Sam speaks to AC Grayling who is a British philosopher and author and Master of the New College of the Humanities in London.

In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Becky speaks to Kevin Young. Kevin is an award winning poet, and writer, and is the Poetry editor of The New Yorker. He is also Director of the Schomburg centre for research in Black Culture in New York.

In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Sam speaks to Mentalist and Illusionist, Derren Brown. He does not have magical powers or psychic ability but became a household name for his Mind Control TV show which was all about the art of psychological manipulation. His book 'Happy' was a big interest and inspiration to Sam for this project.

In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Becky speaks to Forensic Anthropologist, Dame Professor Sue Black. Sue is an eminent British forensic expert who has lead forensic teams identifying human remains in the aftermath of war and natural disaster all over the world.

In this episode of The Dead Club Podcast, Sam speaks to author Max Porter. Max is a highly acclaimed British writer who's book, Grief is The Thing With Feathers was one of the main inspirations for this project and who has written two prose pieces for the Dead Club album.

The Dead Club Podcast is an 8 part podcast series that brings to life British band, Tunng’s ground-breaking collaborative musical project, Dead Club: a meditation on loss and a riotous trip through life in all its goodness, oddness and wonder.