Kathleen Turner: What song would you like played at your funeral?

What song would you like played at your funeral?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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Recorded Kathleen Turner said elsewhere, not written here

One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 May 2014 source ↗

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Sara Cox English broadcaster

The Hovis ad music.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2019 source ↗

Sananda Maitreya Singer and songwriter

As a native-derived person, we don’t believe in death. Death is a western, fear-based concept. We believe that an eternal spirit is housed into a temporary vehicle, and when that vehicle no longer becomes tenable to inhabit, we just move on. If I had to play music, I’d insist on Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.

Recorded The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 26 October 2025 source ↗

Tony Robinson British actor