A deadpan look at life in the funeral parlour:
‘COPULATION, population, inspiration, expiration - It’s biblical!" expounded the sexton with grim relish. Playing Hamlet to a gravedigger who soliloquised at the drop of a sod was a young Thomas Lynch, who would eventually become an acclaimed poet, essayist - and undertaker, and whose eloquent memoirs on burying the dead in small-town Michigan were adapted by Kate McAll for Radio 4’s Friday Play with the same loving care Lynch and his mortician father lavished on their lately deceased clients. [...]
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