{{Italic title}} {{Infobox podcast |title = Griefcast |image = Griefcast_logo.jpeg |hosting = Cariad Lloyd |language = English |updates = |length = 1 hour (approximate) |production = Recorded at Whistledown Studios<br> Edited by Kate Holland <br> Music by the Glue Ensemble |preceded_by = |began = {{Start date|2016}} |genre = |cited_as = |provider = acast |url = {{URL|https://shows.acast.com/griefcast}} |fetchwikidata = ALL }} '''''Griefcast''''' is a British podcast about grief and loss. Hosted by comic and actor Cariad Lloyd, the podcasts feature hour-long conversations about grief and bereavement with people who have experienced the death of loved ones. Lloyd asks guests "Who are we remembering today?" at the start of each episode. <ref>{{Cite news |title=Griefcast: life-affirming conversations about death |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/griefcast-life-affirming-conversations-about-death-1.3705748 |access-date=July 20, 2022 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Strick |first=Katie |date=August 10, 2018 |title=Cariad Lloyd on her grief podcast and why it's OK to laugh about death |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/griefcast-podcast-cariad-lloyd-death-a3908526.html |access-date=July 20, 2022 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref>
Many of the guests on ''Griefcast'' are also comics; in a 2018 interview Lloyd said: "If you have a comic sensibility, you do this at any serious event. You break awkwardness with jokes. It's a way of coping. You have a breath of laughter when, for a moment, you forget that someone you love is dying. It's like coming up for air."<ref>{{Cite web |title="I thought no one would listen": Cariad Lloyd on her hit podcast Griefcast |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/griefcast-podcast-cariad-lloyd-interview/ |access-date=July 20, 2022 |website=Radio Times |language=en}}</ref>
''Griefcast'' premiered in 2016 and was one of the top podcasts on iTunes within six months. It has won several awards, including Best Entertainment Podcast and Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards and an ARIA Award for Best Podcast. In a 2018 article in ''FT'', Fiona Sturges wrote: "If justification were needed for the existence of podcasts, this show is it."<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 27, 2018 |title=Podcast: Griefcast — laughing in the face of death |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5fad2056-6000-11e8-ab47-8fd33f423c09 |access-date=July 20, 2022 |work=Financial Times}}</ref> The final episode of ''Griefcast'' was recorded in January 2023.
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