Bereavement

Can loss be a force for renewal, forcing us to adjust and experience things differently?

A meditation on loss, with real and imagined stories bound by sound and silence.

Clare Balding walks with Carolyn Savidge in north Somerset.

The women who overcame grief through friendship and sea shanties

Josie Long presents stories about absence and nothing.

Composer Emily Levy on a poignant legacy - the mix-tapes made by her late brother, Gus

Burial is a practice that’s been carried out for centuries – but why do we do it?

Norway’s novel attempts to heal its citizens two years from the Anders Breivik murders

Winifred Robinson returns to the Bulger family, 20 years after the murder of their son.

Thomas Dixon explores the history of weeping as an aesthetic response to works of art.

Writer Michael Rosen explores the language of bereavement and grief.

Aleks Krotoski looks at whether our online lives are transforming our experience of death.

Paddy O'Connell meets Sir Al Aynsley-Green who has forged a career helping children.

Paddy O'Connell explores the effect of great emotional upheaval on family life.

Survivors and bereaved families facing their first Christmas since the Utoya massacre.

Claudia Hammond on personal space and claustrophobia. What can brain scans tell us?

Clare Balding meets members of the Shropshire Bereavement Walking Group.

Charting Claire Prosser's first year without her teenage son, Tom, who died suddenly.