In ITV’s new drama, Finding Alice, Keeley Hawes plays a widow who uses humour to help her grieve, and it prompts a discussion about the different ways people cope with loss.

When we learned that Keeley Hawes would star in a new comedy-drama about grief this year, our interest piqued. What’s so funny about death? Especially at a time when we’re collectively grieving?

But before the first episode of Finding Alice aired on Sunday (17 January), Hawes and her co-executive producer on the show, Roger Goldby, talked about what they’re hoping to achieve in conversations around loss and grief.