Arabella Tresilian is an interpersonal mediator working in the medical care and end-of-life environment, helping families find acceptance with each other and the challenges they face.

Rhiannon Thomas is no ordinary lawyer.

A deeply reflective professional, and sensitive to a gap in her practice many years ago, she set off to learn how to better understand her client’s emotional world, and how it influenced their wishes and their actions. She discovered integrative law - an approach that aligned with the person she felt she was.

Warrant Officer Stephné Le Roux of the South African Police Service (SAPS) provides intimate detail of her fascinating work identifying skeletal remains. What is the story they tell?

A whopper of an episode with an extraordinary guest, outgoing Professor of Human Anatomy at the University of Cape Town Medical School, Dr Graham Louw. A special hour with a special person.

Eric Adjetey Anang grew up playing in his grandfather's carpentry workshop in Accra, where he learnt how to make the distinctive Ghanaian abebuu adekai - or 'boxes of proverbs,' the fantastic ‘fantasy coffins’ in the shapes of chocolate bars, petrol pumps, fish and eagles…

Kirsty Horn is a Breast Cancer Warrior, no mere 'survivor.' In this episode, she shares extremely useful insight gained during her diagnosis and treatment journey, with candour, energy and a gret sense of humour.

Karen Borochowitz founded Dementia South Africa over 20 years ago, after caring for her mother who lived with Alzheimer's Disease, and shares a lifetime's worth of wisdom and insight.

Jill Katz is the person you want by your side to help navigate all the stuff a loved one leaves behind.

Grief is a hard word - a bit of a blunt instrument, in fact. Where there is love, it follows, as the night does after day. And when the sun rises, you find yourself changed…

Dr Ivan Schewitz is a veteran explorer of the thoracic cavity, having saved and improved many lives in his long and pioneering surgical career.

Adriaan Bester is an industry veteran, a deeply compassionate soul who balances curiosity and innovation with tradition.

Dr. Mary Ryan is a priest and soul carer, someone with great experience of providing spiritual care at the end of life.

Dr. Ela Manga is an integrative medical doctor, highly attuned to the relationship between different systems in the body. She has deep experience of how the breath plays a leading part in how we live and how we die. Her work is radical and gentle, profound and compassionate.

Veteran teaching midwife Ciske van Straaten has vast experience of helping to bring life into the world, and has also been intimately involved in death. What has this taught her? What have these two moments got in common? How do they relate to each other, in the cycle of life?

Russ Ford is witness to life and death in the US prison system, where he was a spiritual companion to those condemned to die.

In this maelstrom of fearful savagery and self-righteous retribution, his unlikely story is a compelling one - of compassion, courage, patience and redemption.

Who has the right to determine how someone else should die? Whose death is it anyway?

In this episode, Sean Davison provides a compassionate response to these questions, which accompanies his courageous example.

Do you recycle? Then meet Brie Smith, from Return Home in Seattle, USA, part of an incredible team providing Terramation™, a process developed to enhance natural decomposition and help get you back into Mother Earth, where you belong. Earth to earth, and dust to dust… Just as nature intended.

At the intersection of a profoundly rich Judaic spirituality and a childhood proclivity to see things others don't, Belinda Silbert is unique - a woman rabbi, a trained classical musician, a mother and someone who ventures beyond the veil.

Life is an expensive business, sometimes it feels like it costs money just to breathe. And when that breath stops… What happens then? As responsibilities and priorities shift in the approach to death, or in its wake, so we change too. Here’s how you can do it better.

Dr. Kathryn Smith trained as a fine artist and won all the accolades. The world was at her feet. But a persistent fascination with forensic identification, fostered in childhood, meant that she was to make a new path, one that allowed her to walk into different worlds…