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Grave Matters is back for Season 2!

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Death — we all have to face it, but nobody wants to talk about it. Anthony Levin and Nadine J. Cohen are back to explore the unexpected, the eerie, and the deeply human sides of life’s final chapter. Grave Matters is the SBS podcast about death, dying, and the people helping us better understand what happens at the end of the road.


Last season, Anthony and Nadine explored death care, grief, and the business of dying. This season, the duo are grave-digging even deeper, aided by some of the passionate, inspiring people working in and around life’s only certainty.

Over ten episodes, they'll cover everything from the history of whole-body donation to the challenges of aged care for the LGBTI community, a monster-sized Halloween special on vampires and zombies, as well as forensic and trauma cleaning, true crime, grief and sex, and more.
What monsters do and the undead do, because of that human corporeality, is they force us to kind of have those conversations
Dr. Emily Zarka, Monster expert
Find Grave Matters in your podcast app such as the SBS Audio app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or LiSTNR.

Season 2 drops it's first episode on October 9.

Hosts: Anthony Levin and Nadine J. Cohen
Producer: Jeremy Wilmot
Writers: Anthony Levin and Nadine J. Cohen
Art and design: Karina Aslikyan
SBS team: Joel Supple, Bernadette Phương Nam Nguyễn, Max Gosford and Philip Soliman

Grave Matters covers some difficult topics and might not be for everyone. If the series raises anything for you, you can reach a counsellor at Beyond Blue at any time, day or night, by calling 1300 22 4636 or visiting www.beyondblue.org.au. Lifeline offers 24/7 crisis support on 13 11 14, and Embrace Multicultural Mental Health supports people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. In an emergency call 000.

Dr Emily Zarka

Vampires have always been maybe not sexy, but sexual because that's the other thing that we can't really ignore when it's a type of vampire that's using their teeth like a phallic object to penetrate human flesh.

Anthony Levin

Is it possible to cure death?

Nadine J. Cohen

How can grief affect your sex life?

Anthony Levin

And what exactly happens to bodies donated to science?

Nadine J. Cohen

Welcome to Grave Matters, a lively look at death. I'm Nadine J. Cohen.

Anthony Levin

And I'm Anthony Levin.

Anthony Levin

Last season, we explored death, grief, and funerals from different angles. This time, we're upping the ante.

Nadine J. Cohen

Oh, I love upping antes.

Anthony Levin

Well, then hold onto your coffin, little lady. Throughout the season, you'll meet 10 people working with death in unique and extraordinary ways.

Nadine J. Cohen

From cleaning crime scenes,

Gabrielle Simpson

This horrendous trail of blood, like, excessive amount of blood, blood all over the handrails.

Anthony Levin

And fighting AI death machines.

Dr Toby Walsh

We don't know whether the machines will ever be conscious.

Nadine J. Cohen

To hunting serial killers.

Alex Campbell

We don't focus on the killer. We focus on the victims.

Anthony Levin

And prepping for the zombie apocalypse.

Dr Emily Zarka

I have Taco Bell hot sauce, because God knows what you're gonna be eating, and if you can put some seasoning on it, maybe that's gonna help.

Anthony Levin

Plus, we finally break Nadine.

Nadine J. Cohen

Look, he may have caused me to make a wrong turn on my way here, because I was so angry at him for what he was saying.

Nadine J. Cohen

Join us as we ask the hard questions and try to make sense of life's only certainty.

Anthony Levin

Listen to Grave Matters on the SBS audio app website or wherever you get your podcasts.

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