Down To A Sunless Sea: Waves

Dave Pickering (UK 2020)

38 min Episode 16 of 18

This very personal podcast is about Dave Pickering and his dad and their relationship. It's also about death, old age, care, love, history, change, mental health, science, medicine, art, dementia and friendship. It brings together memoir, clips from over 10 years of recordings of his father and interviews with experts. It takes you on a journey down to a sunless sea.

episode is about movement, memory, change, time, distance, tears, connection, therapy, sadness, love, grief and everything else that can come in waves.

Dave has to come to terms with his father’s memory loss and the fact that no matter what he forgets, it can’t take away the love they have shared, that existed, and will always have existed, even when he has forgotten it; even when he is no longer alive to remember it; even when Dave’s forgotten it; even when Dave is no longer alive to remember it. It happened. And that has to be enough.

General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues Additional content note: euthanasia/suicide

Produced by Dave Pickering
With funding from the British Podcast Awards Fund and the Wellcome Trust

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