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In Conversation with Death

Show

Breakfast with Barr,

Presenter

Peter Barr

Published

Tuesday 21st April

Don’t you just love a good funeral?

Well, I suppose a swinging soundtrack can help lift even the most sombre occasions and a new survey has discovered the top tunes people play while farewelling a friend.

This got Breakfast’s social commentator Sabian Wilde thinking about the oncoming storm and his own eventual ultimate demise.