BBC Factual has commissioned Firecracker Films to make a new 1 x 60 film with award-winning presenter Stacey Dooley, in association with Little Dooley.
Stacey Dooley: Inside the Undertakers (w/t), for BBC One and iPlayer, follows Stacey as she confronts one of our last taboos - death - by immersing herself in the world of undertaking at one of the UK’s busiest family-run funeral businesses.
This new film follows Stacey’s previous acclaimed documentary from the same production team behind Inside the Convent, where she expressed her fear of death, seeking answers from the nuns she was staying with, but her curiosity wasn’t fully satisfied. Stacey’s life has since changed; and as a new mother, her worries for the future, and about death, have only been exacerbated. In order to try to overcome her fears, Stacey wants to face death head on.
In this new film, Stacey joins the team of funeral directors at Nottinghamshire-based firm, A.W. Lymn The Family Funeral Service. One of the largest independent funeral enterprises in the country, the company is a proud fifth-generation family-run business. Stacey will fully immerse herself in every aspect of the company’s day-to-day work to discover more about the business of death – from arranging funerals to making coffins, learning more about embalming to carving elaborate headstones - and will try to get the answers she has been searching for.
Additionally, Stacey’s time at the undertakers will act as a springboard for her to explore other people’s stories. She will follow several funerals, from start to finish, to see how faith, and also secular beliefs, play a part at this extraordinary moment.
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