Joe Duffy returns with a new run of the series Spirit Level, a chat show with a vibrant mix of topical discussion, engaging interviews and features. This series will reflect the energy and diversity in contemporary Irish religious and spiritual life. This time round the addition of a studio audience will add greatly to the broad range of topics under discussions. No topic is more emotionally charged than that of death and as part of RTÉ One’s ONCE IN A LIFETIME season on the Irish way of death, programme one deals with the subject in a frank and open manner.
The members of Joe’s panel deal on a daily basis with issues around death in their own personal and professional lives. They navigate their way through the journey of death and grief, which for some can be daunting and frightening and for others rewarding and comforting.
Episode one
Joe talks for Fr Brian D’Arcy about his life and times, and in part two Joe discusses death and the afterlife with his panel which features: Lorraine Whyman (A young woman with incurable brain cancer who recently married the love of her life. She has two years to live); Susan Delaney (Bereavement Councillor, Irish Hospice Foundation); Fr Pierce Cormac (Chaplain to the Mercy Hospital Cork who was also involved with the Union Hall drowning disaster); and Tom Inglis (Sociologist in UCD. He has written about the death of his wife and son in his book Making Love)