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Raw grief
A tale of food and loss.
In the first of two episodes on food and grief, Emily Thomas explores how food can help us navigate through the darkest of times - the days, weeks, and even years following the death of someone we loved. In times of loss, should we use food to remember the dead or to reconnect with them? A neurologist explains the science behind grief and appetite, and people who've been recently bereaved talk about the foods and eating rituals that have helped them through it.
(Photo: A raw onion. Credit: Getty Images)
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Sun 9 Sep 201807:32GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet
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The ‘fix I need’ to remember my dead father
Duration: 03:06
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'A pan of lasagne can say a lot more than a sympathy card'
Duration: 01:03
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- Thu 6 Sep 201802:32GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean, Online, UK DAB/Freeview, West and Central Africa & Europe and the Middle East only
- Thu 6 Sep 201803:32GMTBBC World Service South Asia & East Asia only
- Thu 6 Sep 201804:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia
- Thu 6 Sep 201810:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Thu 6 Sep 201821:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Sun 9 Sep 201807:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
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